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Bennett is expected to take off next week for a meeting with Biden at the White House
The meeting is expected to take place next Thursday, in the shadow of the most serious crisis in the US president's tenure over the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
According to senior Israeli officials, the meeting is an opportunity to "reboot" relations between the two countries after Netanyahu's 12 years in power, with Washington striving to renew US credibility in the Middle East.
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Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 19:36 Updated: 19:53
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is expected to take off next week for his first visit to Washington, and to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House.
The meeting between Bennett and Biden will take place as the US president faces the most serious crisis in his tenure to date over the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Bennett is expected to take off for Washington in the middle of next week, and meet with Biden on Thursday.
Bennett's travel will be under significant Corona restrictions from the Ministry of Health, and his entire entourage will be in capsule and will not be able to leave the hotel except for a few official meetings.
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Expected to take off for Washington next week.
Bennett (Photo: Official Website, Ohad Zweigenberg)
The contacts for the meeting between Bennett and Baiden last about two months.
Initially planned at the White PMO to hold the meeting in July, but the political difficulties in Israel next to schedule busy Biden did not allow it. In recent weeks, there were talks mainly about the content arise at the meeting, and yesterday (Tuesday) agreed deadline for her.
During a statement to the media "We have completed a process of formulating policy on the Iranian issue in all dimensions, we come very sharp with a conception of partnership, which aims to curb regional activity and prevent the approach of nuclear weapons," he said. said.
Is in the worst crisis of his tenure due to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Biden (Photo: Reuters)
Bennett will be the first foreign leader to attend a meeting with Biden at the White House since the outbreak of the withdrawal crisis from Afghanistan last weekend. Senior Israeli officials have feared in recent days that the fact that Biden is completely focused on the crisis in Afghanistan and the issue of the corona will lead to a postponement of the meeting.
Jerusalem is very concerned about the images coming from Afghanistan in recent days, and senior Israeli officials have even said that they send a problematic message regarding American involvement in the Middle East. Israel is careful not to express the criticism in public - but in closed-door talks senior officials expressed astonishment at the intelligence failure of the Americans in Afghanistan.
Senior Israeli officials also said they hoped that in the wake of the current crisis in Afghanistan, the Biden government would reconsider its path regarding its plans to withdraw its forces from Iraq and possibly later Syria.
"The Americans want to break away from the Middle East, but time and time again the Middle East is chasing them and reminding them of its existence," two senior Israeli officials said.
Both sought to remain anonymous due to political sensitivity.
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In the video: Biden declares that he is behind the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan (Photo: Reuters)
Public criticism of Americans.
Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly criticized the Americans for the situation in Afghanistan.
In a post he posted earlier today on Facebook, he wrote that in 2013 then-US Secretary of State John Kerry offered to fly with him to Afghanistan secretly to see how the Americans trained the Afghan army to fight terrorism.
"The message was clear - the Afghanistan model is the model that the United States seeks to apply to the Palestinian issue as well," Netanyahu wrote.
"I politely declined the offer and basically denied the idea. I estimated then that as soon as the United States leaves Afghanistan - everything will collapse. Unfortunately, this is what happened these days: an extremist Islamic regime conquered Afghanistan and turned it into a world peace threat. .
Israeli officials have said they hope the crisis in Afghanistan will not overshadow the meeting between Bennett and Biden, which they defined as an opportunity to "reboot" Israeli-US relations after Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 years in power.
Israeli officials have estimated that the White House is interested in taking a step that would allow it to renew US credibility in the Middle East. According to them, Israel wants to contribute to such a move.
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