US President Barack Obama has removed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a Facebook “friend” amid a widening diplomatic rift between the two men, according to the Israeli media.

The already tense personal relationship between Obama and Netanyahu took a turn for the worse after Speaker of the House John Boehner invited the Israeli premier Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress in March.

The move, which is seen as a joint effort to rebuke the Obama administration for diplomacy with Iran, was met with criticism from the White House and Democrats in Congress.

The invitation was extended hours after Obama delivered his sixth State of the Union Address in which he threatened to veto any sanctions legislation authorizing new sanctions against Iran amid nuclear talks.

It is not exactly clear when Obama deleted Netanyahu from his Facebook’s friends list, but it is believed to be around the time when he accepted Boehner’s invitation. Netanyahu only learned of the snub on Sunday, according to The Israeli Daily, citing an unnamed source close to the prime minister.

“Bibi was looking at [Attorney General] Eric Holder’s page, and he happened to check what friends they had in common,” a source said. “And he sees [Secretary of State John] Kerry, Bill [Clinton], Hill [ary Clinton], Fabio, but no Obama. So he goes to Obama’s page, and sure enough it says ‘Add Friend.’ We were in complete disbelief.”

The White House has said that President Obama would not meet Netanyahu during his visit to Washington.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/26/394848/Obama-unfriends-Bibi-on-Facebook

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This is serious!

Interesting how people take facebook this serious

At this level FB Friend is a very big deal.

Is this some kind of a joke? Have presstv been hack?

I still think this is sarcasms. I don't want to believed this is a Facebook thing.

Obama has right to choose who to be and who not to be his friends on facebook.

Is the friendship by force?

...same way I'm gonna unfriend Dangote soon