Benjamin Netanyahu raises stakes forward of assembly with Barack Obama

By Toby Harnden in Washington 742PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

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Mr Netanyahu was vocalization on Capitol Hill in allege of on vacation the White House for what American officials pronounced would be "candid" talks following the new Israeli preference to enlarge the distance of settlements in doubtful easterly Jerusalem.

"We contingency not be trapped by an fallacious and irrational demand," Mr Netanyahu told congressional leaders during a Washington visit, in a anxiety to Palestinian demands. "It could put the assent negotiations on hold for an additional year."

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Earlier, Mr Netanyahu had defiantly told a entertainment of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is the collateral ... Everyone knows that these neighbourhoods will be piece of Israel in any assent settlement. Therefore, construction in them in no approach precludes the probability of a two-state solution.

The White House assembly was due to take place over cooking in a small side room off the Oval Office at the back of sealed doors but the prevalent print event and questions from the press an denote of the moving tactful event in in in in in between the dual allies.

Mr Netanyahu has already apologised for the timing though not the piece of the proclamation during Vice President Joe Biden"s outing to Israel that the Jewish state intends to set up 1,600 dwellings for Israelis in easterly Jerusalem.

When asked if Mr Obama approaching a serve reparation from Mr Netanyahu, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, responded tartly "I have no disbelief that that will be a theme in the meeting."

Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu were due to sup in a small room off the Oval Office but even a photo-op, underlining the ethereal charge both leaders face in repair a difference that detonate open dual weeks ago.

Face-to-face assent talks in in in in in between the Israelis and the Palestinians have been dangling given Dec 2008. The allotment proclamation triggered the majority critical difference squabble in in in in in between Israel and Washington Mr Obama took office.

After a operative cooking on Monday night in in in in in between Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu, the White House released a short matter observant "They had a productive, vehement contention on the full range of issues in the shared relationship, in credentials for the assembly after currently in in in in in between the boss and the budding minister." The tenure "candid" is tactful formula for a critical disagreement.

On Capitol Hill and no disbelief in the White House as well Mr Netanyahu was penetrating to change the contention afar from settlements and onto Iran.

A congressional staffer told Politico "He knows that this is something that is going to move members of Congress, even if they are indignant about the enlargement of Jewish housing, that they are going to reply to Iran as a threat. He continuous Iran to only about each theme that was raised."