Report: Obama, Netanyahu to meet in U.S. on Tuesday

[IndianaGreen]

Report: Obama, Netanyahu to meet in U.S. on Tuesday

Israeli officials have confirmed that United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, amid growing tension over Israel's recent announcement to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, Fox news reported on Friday.

Netanyahu is due to depart for the U.S. on Sunday, where he was initially scheduled to meet with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee alone.

Due to Obama's postponement of a planned trip to Australia and Indonesia, the two leaders have scheduled a last minute meeting in which they are due to discuss the row provoked by Israel's announcement, made while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in the country, Fox news reported.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157641.html

[Jefferson23]

1. Meet with AIPAC alone? I believe Secretary Clinton was scheduled

to be there at the same time as Bibi, perhaps that has changed.

[Scurrilous]

2. No Netanyahu-Obama meeting scheduled

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"No meeting with President Obama has been scheduled for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States.

Obama administration officials rejected a Fox News report Friday that the two leaders would meet in the Oval Office on Tuesday; nothing has been scheduled yet, the officials told JTA.

Netanyahu's visit follows two weeks of tension triggered by Israel's announcement of a housing construction project in eastern Jerusalem during what was supposed to have been a friendly visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Officials at the Israeli embassy said they did not know of any planned Obama-Netanyahu meeting.

Netanyahu will be in Washington to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference. Obama was going to be away, on a tour of the Far East, but the White House announced Thursday that the trip was canceled because Obama is determined to shepherd his health care package through Congress. Since then, speculation has abounded about whether the two leaders would meet. A snub would be seen as a major humiliation for Netanyahu."

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/03/19/1011226/netanyahu-obama-to-meet-report