Israeli journalist Barak Ravid s new book exposes the lengths Kushner tried to go to to keep Trump s goals for the Middle East moving, including threatening Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2020.
WASHINGTON (JTA) In 2001, when he was out of office and in what he thought was a private setting, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.”
Reelected in 2009, and still serving 12 years later, Netanyahu has moved American Jews and Democrats in one direction but not, from his perspective, the “right” direction. His approval ratings among Jews and Democrats have gone underwater. He has remained popular with Republicans.
The America that votes Democratic, Benjamin Netanyahu ignored or simply never got. That America happens to include the vast majority of American Jewish voters.