It won’t be for the two of them, of course, since Mr. Netanyahu also noted he did not play golf. Mr. Obama, according to a briefing by senior American officials, raised deep concerns about the settlements as an obstacle to a two-state solution, and Mr. Netanyahu pushed back. Mr. Obama, he said, suspects that Mr. Netanyahu will continue expanding West Bank settlements “just to spite him.”After appearing to throw his weight behind Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, Mr. Netanyahu has stayed studiously out of American domestic politics this time. In May 2011, Mr. Netanyahu publicly rebuked Mr. Obama after he tried to revive the peace process. Amid all the happy talk Wednesday, Mr. Obama could not resist a brief reference to those chillier days.

Source: New York Times September 22, 2016 00:37 UTC