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Related: About this forumUS officials: Netanyahu ‘myopic, untrustworthy, disrespectful of Obama’
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-officials-netanyahu-myopic-entitled-untrustworthy-disrespectful-of-obama/
A new profile of US Secretary of State John Kerry in The New Yorker casts light on the stormy relationship between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have often clashed publicly over the Iran nuclear deal and the Palestinian conflict but who also routinely refer to each other as friends.
The piece, written by the magazines editor in chief, David Remnick, quotes American officials who describe Netanyahu as myopic, entitled, untrustworthy, routinely disrespectful toward the president, and focused solely on short-term political tactics to keep his right-wing constituency in line.
The piece goes on to describe the sources of Kerrys exasperation with Netanyahu. Quoting State Department aides, it says these range from the injustice of settlement building in the West Bank to the way he employs Yitzhak Molcho, his lawyer and confidant, to stifle even the most inconsequential negotiation.
Remnick quotes Kerry as saying that, in 2010, Netanyahu balked at an opportunity to revive the peace process between Israel and Syria, despite assurances from President Bashar Assad that he was ready to make a deal.
A new profile of US Secretary of State John Kerry in The New Yorker casts light on the stormy relationship between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have often clashed publicly over the Iran nuclear deal and the Palestinian conflict but who also routinely refer to each other as friends.
The piece, written by the magazines editor in chief, David Remnick, quotes American officials who describe Netanyahu as myopic, entitled, untrustworthy, routinely disrespectful toward the president, and focused solely on short-term political tactics to keep his right-wing constituency in line.
The piece goes on to describe the sources of Kerrys exasperation with Netanyahu. Quoting State Department aides, it says these range from the injustice of settlement building in the West Bank to the way he employs Yitzhak Molcho, his lawyer and confidant, to stifle even the most inconsequential negotiation.
Remnick quotes Kerry as saying that, in 2010, Netanyahu balked at an opportunity to revive the peace process between Israel and Syria, despite assurances from President Bashar Assad that he was ready to make a deal.
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US officials: Netanyahu ‘myopic, untrustworthy, disrespectful of Obama’ (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2015
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Netanyahu has set back US-Israel relationships so badly that Israel regime change will be necessary
Attorney in Texas
Dec 2015
#3
2naSalit
(86,880 posts)1. He's the
tRump of Israel... only he's already in office and has been doing incredible damage for a long time now. The description in the article fits him well.
BeyondGeography
(39,390 posts)2. "Near-pathological desire for career-preservation"
as opposed to the national interest. Of course, I'm sure he conveniently fails to differentiate the two.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)3. Netanyahu has set back US-Israel relationships so badly that Israel regime change will be necessary
to repair the damage.
Netanyahu has almost single-handedly turned what had traditionally been a bi-partisan issue into a sharply partisan controversy.