Yair Lapid, co-leader of the Blue and White party told i24NEWS on Wednesday that while he believes whoever wins the September 17 election will have a positive relationship with the White House, his party expects the US to "stay out of our election."
Discussing the upcoming general election and US President Donald Trump's vocal support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lapid said he was not too concerned by the two leaders' ever-warming ties.
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Netanyahu's relationship with the US president has long been a central feature of his campaigning.
In the last round of elections, Trump appeared on giant campaign billboards in Jerusalem shaking hands and smiling with Netanyahu, and the premier has shared videos of the US leader calling him "strong" and a "winner."
But for Lapid, a good relationship between the US and Israel is simply par for the course.
He said whoever wins the election will work well with the Trump administration because historically the US-Israel relationship "has always been good."
"I think whoever wins the election is going to be on great terms with the American president," Lapid said.
Lapid added that the Trump-Netanyahu dynamic will not play a big role in the election as long as the US does not get actively involved in domestic Israeli affairs, as that is the expectation of "civil" politics.
"Of course we expect the American administration to stay out of our election the same way the Americans expect us to stay away from their election. It's just the civil way of treating politics," he said.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
