Analysis: Netanyahu once gave Obama a lecture. Now he’s using it to boost his election campaign.
By Ruth Eglash Ruth Eglash Reporter covering Israel and the Palestinian territories Email Bio Follow March 28 at 12:45 PM JERUSALEM — Remember the time Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington and lectured President Barack Obama in the White House?
In the video Netanyahu tells a stony-faced Obama: “It’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen, and I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it’s not going to happen.” Baker says in the clip: “Watching President Obama there, his face in his hand, and you can tell it's not going over well. And to be lectured in his office, and obviously it rankles."Throughout their eight years working opposite one another, there was no shortage of difficult moments between Obama and Netanyahu. In his memoir last year, former secretary of state John F.
The meeting between the president and the prime minister, which should have lasted fifty minutes, went on for twice that time. After it, the media were invited in for a photo op that turned into one of the most publicized and controversial battles between an American president and an Israeli prime minister.
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