US President Barack Obama's administration's criticism of Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies has crossed the line into
interfering in Israeli politics, top Likud ministers and MKs said
Tuesday.

Expert Frank Gaffney: Obama's demands on settlements 'coercion'

Kadima officials responded to the allegations by disagreeing that the
US was meddling but expressing concern that such a perception by the
Israeli public would harm their party and end up strengthening the
prime minister. They accused Netanyahu's associates of portraying Obama
as an enemy of Israel in order to unite the public behind him.

The charges of American interference began April 16 when Yediot
Aharonot quoted Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel telling an unnamed
Jewish leader: "In the next four years there is going to be a
permanent-status arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians on the
basis of two states for two peoples, and it doesn't matter to us at all
who is prime minister [of Israel]."

Likud Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled said Tuesday that the
statement was inappropriate and was just one of many examples of
American interference in Israeli politics since Netanyahu's election in
February.
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