(Jpost).In what seems an effort to signal close cooperation with Washington, American Ambassador James Cunningham is expected to fly on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's plane Saturday night as the prime minister heads to his meeting with US President Barack Obama on Monday.
The gesture seems partly designed to dispel media speculation in the past few weeks that the two leaders were headed for an inevitable confrontation.
Sharon's former spokesman Ra'anan Gissin said that taking the US ambassador on the plane was a way to demonstrate that there was no strain in relationship and "show there is a very good, intimate relationship with the ambassador. When you take the ambassador with you, it means you are in close consultation with the embassy and with the American administration."
