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Boehner Did Not Advise White House That Netanyahu Will Address Congress

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu

(Photo : Reuters/Abir Sultan/Pool) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry denounced the offensive slur an unnamed White House official allegedly said against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Thursday, October 30, 2014.

House Speaker John Boehner is on another collision course.


After incurring the ire of conservative Republicans over the Department of Homeland Security funding, this time he is going again against the White House.

Star Tribune reports that Boehner did not inform the White House in advance that the house speaker would ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress on Tuesday.

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Netanyahu is expected to ask the U.S. Congress to permit a fresh round of sanctions against Iran even if US President Barack Obama promised to veto such kinds of legislation due to its impact on ongoing nuclear talks.

The prime minister's adviser said that Netanyahu would warn of the perils of allowing Iran to nuclear arms, which is a topic that the President Obama is not too keen to hear.

But the adviser stressed that Netanyahu is not in the U.S. to offend Obama, whom Israel "respects very much".

While U.S. State Secretary John Kerry insists that Washington is determined to pursue negotiations with Iran, he said on Sunday that Netanyahu is welcome to speak in the U.S.

"We have a closer relationship with Israel right now in terms of security than at any time in history," Kerry told Reuters.

Netanyahu, for his part, said on Saturday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem that he respects Obama and believes the strong bilateral tie that binds the two countries "will prevail over differences of opinion" both in the past and those that will come up in the future.

Before boarding his U.S.-bound jet, Netanyahu said that he is going to Washington for a very historic mission as emissary of the Israeli nation regardless if they agree with him or not.

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