US national security advisor Rice says Benjamin Netanyahu address ‘destructive’

Susan Rice, US President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, said on Tuesday night that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to address Congress next month is “destructive of the fabric of the relationship” between Israel and the United States.

 

“We’ve been fortunate that politics have not been injected into that relationship,” Rice said to American journalist Charlie Rose.

 

But “what has happened over the last several weeks, by virtue of the invitation that was issued by the Speaker and the acceptance of it by Prime Minister Netanyahu on two weeks in advance of his election, is that on both sides, there has now been injected a degree of partisanship.”

 

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