'Angry' Netanyahu orders ministers to attend Trump reception
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/21/angry-netanyahu-orders-ministers-attend-trump-israeli-arrival
"Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has reportedly been forced to order his ministers to attend the airport reception for Donald Trump on Monday, after discovering that a number had planned not to attend.
According to reports in the Israeli media, an angry Netanyahu was informed on Sunday that party heads and a number of ministers planned to skip the reception after the White House had asked for the meet and greet to be shortened to the two countries anthems and handshakes only between Netanyahu and Trump.
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The visit comes at a tense time ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War in early June which for Palestinians marks five decades of occupation and amid a continuing hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that has prompted sometimes violent demonstrations on the West Bank.
Trumps problems at home are also seen by some as having cast a pall over the proceedings, with Dan Shapiro, the former US ambassador to Israel under Barack Obama, predicting: I think the trips in a lot of jeopardy [in] being able to be productive because of all the chaos and controversy thats going on in Washington.....(more)