We discussed security issues: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Gadi Eisenkot

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot in a secret meeting reported this evening by Kan News. The meeting covered security issues, including tensions in the West Bank, settler violence, and the situation in Gaza. Meanwhile, a planned meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu was canceled at the last moment.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met in recent days with Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, as reported this evening (Wednesday) by Kan News. The meeting, the first and only one between the two, took place in secret ahead of the upcoming elections. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the meeting, which was kept confidential and not reported to the public by either Eisenkot's office or the ambassador. According to the source, the meeting covered security issues, including tensions in the West Bank, settler violence, and the situation in the Gaza Strip. Yashar declined to comment on the meeting. Meanwhile, another meeting that Huckabee had planned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was canceled at the last moment. According to the source, Netanyahu canceled the meeting, and no new date has been set yet. The ambassador stated that it was a purely social event, postponed due to an urgent matter the Prime Minister needed to handle, and that it was not a big deal. "It will be rescheduled when the schedule is convenient. Any suggestion that this is anything other than a very cordial social event with our wives would be ridiculous and patently false," he said.