White House cancels meeting with Israeli Occupation over Netanyahu’s military aid criticism
The White House canceled a high-level US-Israeli Occupation meeting on Iran scheduled for Thursday after Israeli Occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video accusing Washington of withholding military aid, reported Axios.
A US official stated, “This decision makes it clear that there are consequences for pulling such stunts.”
Axios revealed that President Biden’s team was “angry and shocked” by Netanyahu’s video. A senior Israeli Occupation official said, “The Americans are fuming. Bibi’s video caused a lot of damage.”
Some Israeli Occupation officials were already en route to Washington when the meeting was canceled. Biden’s advisers also canceled a strategic dialogue on Iran, which was to include meetings between officials from the State Department, Pentagon, and US intelligence agencies with their Israeli Occupation counterparts.
US envoy Amos Hochstein met with Netanyahu on Tuesday and reportedly told him the video’s accusations were “inaccurate and out of line.”
Netanyahu claimed in the video that the US had been withholding weapons and ammunition from Israeli Occupation for months. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded that only one weapons shipment had been paused, while billions of dollars’ worth of weapons had been delivered. “We genuinely do not know what he is talking about,” she said.
