“The positions taken by the prime minister in the last days of the campaign have raised very significant substantive questions that go far beyond just optics,” a senior administration official told Politico. The administration source did not rule out a shift in U.S. support for Israeli positions at the United Nations, including its withdrawal from Palestinian territories.
Maybe the timing is unrelated, but in an MSNBC interview today, Netanyahu took a noticeably softer stance to his hardline campaign rhetoric around the issue of a two-state solution, as well as his tone toward the U.S., which, in his words, "has no greater ally than Israel."
