{"id":501,"date":"2010-06-28T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=501"},"modified":"2010-06-28T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:32:25","slug":"israel-us-relations-suffering-tectonic-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/28\/501\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-US relations suffering \u2018tectonic rift\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"isrl-us\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/isrl-us.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"165\" \/>OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) Israeli-U.S. relations have undergone a huge shift amounting to what Israel&#8217;s ambassador to Washington has termed &#8220;a genuine tectonic rift,&#8221; media reports said on Sunday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Briefing officials at the foreign ministry last week, ambassador Michael Oren described the state of ties between Israel and its closest ally as worse than a crisis, something akin to that of two continents drifting apart.<br \/>According to one diplomat quoted by the Haaretz daily, Oren used bleak terms to explain the changes which have taken place under the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.<br \/>&#8220;Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart,&#8221; Oren was quoted as saying by the diplomat.<br \/>Another diplomat who spoke to the top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said there had been an historic change in Washington&#8217;s approach to Israel.<br \/>&#8220;There is no crisis in Israel-U.S. relations because in a crisis there are ups and downs,&#8221; he quoted Oren as saying.<br \/>Both papers quoted Oren as attributing the shift in sentiment to &#8220;interests and cold considerations&#8221; by Obama who did not have the same historical-ideological bent towards Israel as his predecessors.<br \/>The Israeli foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment on the reports, which came just over a week before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the White House for talks with Obama.<br \/>Israeli-U.S. relations have taken a battering in recent months amid a row over settlement building in east Jerusalem and the fallout from a deadly Israeli raid on an international aid fleet trying to break the blockade on Gaza.<br \/>The two leaders had been due to meet on June 1 for a reconciliatory meeting that was called off at the last minute after the flotilla raid<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) Israeli-U.S. relations have undergone a huge shift amounting to what Israel&#8217;s ambassador to Washington has termed &#8220;a genuine tectonic rift,&#8221; 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