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		</div><p>Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are meeting separately with Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in sessions that could set the tone for relations between the allied countries during the next presidential administration.</p>
<p>Earlier today Mr Trump met with Mr Netanyahu for over an hour at his residence in Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Israeli and campaign officials.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton is expected to meet with the prime minister in New York tonight on the eve of the first debate between the candidates.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/image-138.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/image-138.jpg" alt="image" width="576" height="383" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-97427" /></a></p>
<p>The Israeli leader has sought to project neutrality this time after perceptions arose that he favoured Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in 2012.</p>
<p>The meeting between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Trump was private, but Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign said in a statement that the men, who have known each other for years, discussed &#8220;many topics important to both countries&#8221;, including &#8220;the special relationship between America and Israel and the unbreakable bond between the two countries&#8221;.</p>
<p>Among those topics: the nuclear deal with Iran, the battle against Islamic State militants, military assistance provided by the US to Israel and other security issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump recognised that Israel and its citizens have suffered far too long on the front lines of Islamic terrorism,&#8221; the campaign said in a statement. </p>
<p>&#8220;He agreed with Prime Minister Netanyahu that the Israeli people want a just and lasting peace with their neighbours, but that peace will only come when the Palestinians renounce hatred and violence and accept Israel as a Jewish State.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump also repeated his pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv if he&#8217;s elected to the White House.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr Trump acknowledged that Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish People for over 3000 years, and that the United States, under a Trump administration, will finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognise Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel,&#8221; the campaign said.</p>
<p>That promise has been made in various forms since at least 1992. Congress three years later passed a law calling for the US embassy to be moved to Jerusalem by 1999, but presidents of both parties have always waived the requirement. </p>
<p>George W Bush promised in 2000 to start the move &#8220;as soon as I take office,&#8221; then did not.</p>
<p>The pair also discussed &#8220;at length&#8221; Israel&#8217;s use of a security fence to help secure its borders. Mr Trump has proposed building a wall along the length of the southern border to keep out people and illegal drugs and often points to Israel as an example of how such barricades can be successful.</p>
<p>He also vowed &#8220;extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries&#8221; if he&#8217;s elected.</p>
<p>The one-on-one discussions follow what was likely Mr Netanyahu&#8217;s final meeting with Mr Obama last week, capping what has been a sometimes rocky relationship between the leaders of the two allies.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has opposed Israel&#8217;s push to expand settlements in the West Bank while Mr Netanyahu has been a leading critic of the US nuclear agreement with Iran. More recently, Mr Netanyahu has urged Obama to avoid pushing for a Palestinian state in his final months in office.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton has supported a negotiated two-state solution in the region, vowed to enforce the Iran nuclear agreement and help defend Israel&#8217;s security. </p>
<p>The former secretary of state suggested in an interview with Israel&#8217;s Channel 2 earlier this month that the Islamic State group was &#8220;rooting for Donald Trump&#8217;s victory&#8221; and he had helped strengthen the hands of extremists by his provocative statements about Muslims.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has been a fierce critic of the Iran nuclear agreement and promised during a speech to AIPAC earlier this year that he would deepen ties between the two countries if he was elected president, adding the days of &#8220;treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one&#8221;.</p>
<p>But he also raised eyebrows when he questioned Israel&#8217;s commitment to a peace deal last year and said he didn&#8217;t want to show any bias in favour of one side or the other.</p>
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