(AhlulBayt News Agency) - President-elect Donald Trump has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to the US for talks 'at the first opportunity'.
The billionaire spoke with the Israeli prime minister on Wednesday morning hours after his stunning triumph over Hillary Clinton.
Netanhyahu called Trump a 'true friend of Israel' and said their conversation was 'hearty and warm' and regional issues were discussed.
His spokesman added that 'The Prime Minister congratulated Trump on his electoral win and told him that the United States has no better ally that Israel.'
'I look forward to working with him to advance security, stability and peace in our region,' Israeli leader Netanyahu said in a statement.
He went on: 'The ironclad bond between the United States and Israel is rooted in shared values, buttressed by shared interests and driven by a shared destiny.
'I am confident that president-elect Trump and I will continue to strengthen the unique alliance between our two countries and bring it to ever greater heights.'
Netanyahu avoided controversial topics in his statement, unlike members of his government.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the hardline Jewish Home party, said Trump's victory eradicated the idea of a Palestinian state.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he hopes 'peace will be achieved' during Trump's term.
n his speech at the 2016 AIPAC policy conference ahead of the US vote, Trump spoke of moving "the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem."
Asked earlier by CNN whether he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy to Jerusalem, the New York billionaire replied: "Yes, I would."
"The fact is I would like to see it moved, I would like to see it in Jerusalem," he said.
He also asserted that talks between Israel and Palestine would not yield results unless Palestinians “come to the table willing to accept that Israel is a Jewish state.”
On Iran, Trump said that he would end the nuclear agreement reached between Tehran and the P5+1 group, calling the deal “catastrophic.”
"My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran," he said at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2016 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, in March. "I have been in business a long time. I know deal making. And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic. For America, for Israel and for the whole of the Middle East."
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source : Daily mail
Thursday
10 November 2016
12:28:00 PM
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President-elect Donald Trump has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to the US for talks 'at the first opportunity'.