>Israeli leader shuns New York Times op-ed offer
Dec 16, 11:30 AM (ET)
JERUSALEM (AP) – A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the leader has refused an offer to write an opinion piece for the New York Times, accusing the paper’s opinion pages of anti-Israel bias.
The unusual public refusal appears to reflect the hardline Israeli government’s increasingly prickly relations with much of the outside world.
