With No White House Invite in Sight, Netanyahu Says Headed to China
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on 27 June that the Israeli prime minister has been invited to make an official visit to China next month, making sure to emphasize the trip is in no way a message to Washington, as some have suggested.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, met with members of the US House of Representatives and informed them that he has been invited to visit China,” the statement read.
The prime minister has “stressed to the members of Congress that the security and intelligence cooperation between the US and Israel is at an all-time peak, and emphasized that the US will always be Israel’s most vital and irreplaceable ally.”
According to the statement, Washington was informed of the upcoming visit one month ago.
The planned visit comes as US President Joe Biden has yet to extend an official invitation for Netanyahu to visit the US.
Prior to the release of the statement, Israeli sources said that contacts have been held between the offices of Netanyahu and Chinese President Xi Jinping, adding that the upcoming trip signals Israel’s “growing impatience with Washington.”
The sources added that Netanyahu aims to show the US that Israel has other diplomatic alternatives.
Source:The Cradle
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