In his testimony at his corruption trial on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed his rocky relationship with former US President Barak Obama and revealed that he was invited for a secret visit to Afghanistan.
Asked about the challenges he faced between the years 2016 and 2017, the Prime Minister claimed that the main challenge was his relationship with then-President Obama: "Already at my first meeting with him in the White House, he explained that US policies were going to take a sharp turn; he appealed to the Muslim world and Iran."
Netanyahu continued: "Concerning the State of Israel, he (Obama) saw a critical need for us to return, more or less, to the 1967 borders and to create a Palestinian state, and if we did this, he felt everything would be solved. I had to face great pressure to create a Palestinian state. He demanded it during the first meeting, he said: 'Not even one brick will you build over the Green Line.' I responded: 'Half of Jerusalem is over the Green Line; for instance, the Gilo neighborhood.' Obama said: 'Gilo too.' He demanded a total construction freeze, massive pressure. I had to deal with this, I had to deflect it, and it was no small matter."
The Prime Minister revealed during his testimony: "Obama offered me a secret visit to Afghanistan to see how the American forces train the local forces."