Binyamin Netanyahu visit will test strains in US-Israel relationship

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, will meet President Barack Obama in Washington. Photograph: Larry Downing/AFP/Getty Images

Dan Roberts in Washington and Harriet Sherwood-Sunday 2 March 2014 

• Disagreements about Iran and peace process with Palestinians
• Congress resisted pro-Israel lobbying over Iranian nuclear deal

The visit of an Israeli prime minister to Washington is normally cause for the city’s foreign-policy gaze to turn toward the Middle East, but this week it is not just the crisis in Ukraine that is overshadowing the arrival of Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House.

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