Americas...:Obama: Dispute with Netanyahu ’Substantive’

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US President Barack Obama insisted Tuesday that his disagreement with "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represents a substantial policy difference and not a personal vendetta.

As the Bibi works to build a new coalition government, he faces one of the worst confrontations in his stormy relationship with the White House.

He has tried to play down declarations he made during his recent victorious election campaign in which he ruled out the creation of a Palestinian state and stigmatized Arab voters.

But Obama has not let him off the hook and, after White House leaks accused "Israel" of spying on US-Iran nuclear talks, he insisted the allies have tougher talking ahead.

"The issue is a very clear, substantive challenge," Obama told reporters at a joint White House news conference with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani.

"We believe that two states is the best path forward for "Israel's" security, for Palestinian aspirations and for regional stability.
"That's our view and that continues to be our view. And PM Netanyahu has a different approach."

Obama denied it was a matter of personal animosity between himself and Netanyahu, describing their notoriously cold relations as "business like."

"This is a matter of figuring out how we get through a knotty policy difference that has great consequences for both sides and the region," he said.

Since Netanyahu's party won "Israel's" March 17 election, not a day has passed without a US comment -- official or otherwise -- on the implications of his hardline rhetoric.

In the latest headline, The Wall Street Journal reported US officials accusing "Israel" of spying on nuclear negotiations with Iran with the aim of thwarting an Obama foreign policy priority.
Earlier, Netanyahu angered the Obama administration this month, breaking diplomatic protocol to address the US Congress in a bid to scupper the White House-backed nuclear deal with Iran.

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