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White House showed 'reprehensible animosity' towards Netanyahu: Speaker

House Speaker John Boehner says Obama administration has displayed "reprehensible animosity" towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The Obama administration has displayed "reprehensible animosity" towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, House Speaker John Boehner says. Netanyahu's recent election victory dramatically exacerbated a diplomatic crisis with Washington, bringing his thorny relationship with US President Barack Obama into sharp focus.

In a bid to ramp up votes, Netanyahu had veered sharply to the right, vowing there would be no Palestinian state on his watch, promising to increase settlement construction and warning that Arab Israeli voters were going "in droves" to the polls, drawing a rebuke from the White House.

Republican Boehner, who invited Netanyahu to Washington in the lead-up to the Israeli election without consulting the White House, told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday: "I think the animosity exhibited by our administration toward the prime minister of Israel is reprehensible.

"And I think that the pressure that they've put on him over the last four or five years has, frankly, pushed him to the point where he had to speak up. I don't blame him at all for speaking up." Boehner said his trip this week to Israel was planned "months ago." "So it's not quite what I would describe as a victory lap," he added. 

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