On Monday, Netanyahu cancelled the same trip by the same people in protest over the U.S. not vetoing a UN Security Council resolution.
It's a sharp reversal by Netanyahu who on Monday canceled the same trip by the same people in protest over the U.S.
Netanyahu's office said the prime minister hadn't approved the delegation's departure but didn't deny discussions are being held about it.A U.S. official told Axios cancelling the trip and the rhetoric around it was "an unnecessary drama on Netanyahu's part."On Wednesday, Netanyahu met with Sen. Rick Scott in his office in Jerusalem and discussed the war in Gaza.
"My decision not to send the delegation to Washington in the wake of that resolution was a message to Hamas: Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work. I hope they got the message," Netanyahu said. Some of Biden's senior advisers laughed when they heard Netanyahu's new stated reason for canceling the trip after the UN Security Council vote, the official said.Two U.S. and Israeli officials said that on Sunday, before the vote at the UN, Dermer called President Biden's top Middle East adviser Brett McGurk and expressed alarm over the U.S. intention not to veto the resolution.
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