The question should be asked: "Why should we expect President Obama, who is half-black, to get along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of a supremacist, apartheid nation, who tried to get Obama defeated in the last American presidential election ?"
—Ronald David Jackson
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| A French President (Nicolas Sarkozy) once told US President Obama, "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar." (Illustration by Ronald David Jackson) |
The personal relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama is so poor that it could seriously hurt otherwise strong bilateral ties, according to a former top American diplomat and veteran Middle East expert.
“The relationship between the two leaders is worse than I’ve ever seen a relationship between a president and a prime minister,” said Daniel Kurtzer, who served as Washington’s ambassador in Israel from 2001 to 2005. “There’s no trust. There’s a growing lack of respect. There’s a sense of — I’d even say betrayal.”
The bad blood between Obama and Netanyahu “informs the entire relationship because bureaucracies and political systems tend to take their energy from the leadership,” Kurtzer told The Times of Israel on Tuesday in Jerusalem. “And if the two leaders are not getting along, as they don’t, then you’ve got a problem.”
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