When Barack Obama’s chances of re-election looked uncertain in May 2011, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu came to the White House to lecture its occupant. In front of “astonished” journalists and “furious” White House aides, Netanyahu publicly rejected the framework for peace the President had endorsed the day before.
Our Separate Ways: The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.-Israel Allianceby Dana H. Allin & Steven N. SimonPublicAffairs, 2016, 304 pp., $26..99
Bibi wasn’t done. Over the coming months, Netanyahu seemed to be actively intervening in favor of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, an old friend from the Boston Consulting Group. The Prime …read more
Source: The American Interest