Netanyahu cancels trip to U.S. nuclear summit
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Service and Agencies Last update - 00:27 09/04/2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not leave next week on a planned trip
to Washington, where he was scheduled to participate in a nuclear security
summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, Israel Radio reported on
Thursday.
Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor will take Netanyahu's
place in the nuclear summit, the radio report said.
Obama has invited more than 40 countries to the summit, which will deal with
preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups.
Netanyahu was due to arrive in Washington on Monday evening and was set to
take part in three or four sessions on Tuesday before returning to Israel on
Wednesday.
While the reason for Netanyahu's cancellation was not made immediately
clear, sources claimed that the PM may have canceled the trip for fear Egypt
and Turkey would demand that Israel sign up to the international Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.
Why should Israel go to this summit at all?
My first thoughts were good for Bibi for not going when I heard this on the news. But now I read that Israel is sending a deligation, I have to wonder how stupid is Bibi.
Bibi did not cancel Israel's trip to the summit, just Bibi is staying home.
