The White House sees the public rift with Israel over a UN Security Council resolution as an artificial crisis manufactured by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for domestic political reasons, three U.S. officials told Axios. ...

• The official said the White House is also puzzled that the prime minister rejected the U.S. interpretation of the UN resolution, decided to air his differences with the Biden administration in public and to tell the U.S. what its policy is when the U.S. is already stating its policy, which is different from what Netanyahu is saying.
• "All of that is self-defeating. The Prime Minister could have chosen a different course — to align with the U.S. on the meaning of this resolution.  He chose not to, apparently for political purposes," a U.S. official said.