Obama official says Israeli prime minister is a coward

An unnamed functionary of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration said in an interview with Atlantic, commenting on the approach of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his position on the Iranian nuclear program, that the prime minister was just a coward, RIA Novosti reports.

The functionary praised Netanyahu for fearing to start a war and condemned his reluctance to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians.