Gantz considers turning down Trump's White House invitation

Source: Axios

Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel's Blue and White party and the main political opponent to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is considering turning down President Trump’s invitation to come to Washington next week to discuss the U.S. Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

The big picture: Blue and White officials tell me Gantz and his aides are concerned the invitation to Washington is a political trap orchestrated by Netanyahu a little more than a month before the country's elections on March 2.

Gantz met this morning with his party leadership to discuss whether he should reject Trump’s invitation.

The officials added that there was great concern in the meeting that going to Washington could do more harm than good and leave Gantz humiliated politically.

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