Rahm Emanuel said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed
the Obama administration by announcing a new settlement expansion and
the cutoff of tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
Emanuel,
the mayor of Chicago and President Obama's chief of staff in his first
term, delivered the assessment over the weekend at the Saban Forum, an
off-the-record Washington event.
Emanuel's comments
were made public by another participant, former Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, during an open forum and were confirmed by other
participants.
According to an account by New Yorker
journalist David Remnick, Emanuel had said that Netanyahu had
"repeatedly betrayed" Obama, and that the latest Israeli moves --
apparent retaliations for the successful Palestinian bid to achieve
non-observer state status last week at the United Nations -- were
especially galling given U.S. support for Israel during its recent
mini-war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/03/3113436/emanuel-blasts-netanyahu-for-betraying-obama
Monday 3 December 2012
Emanuel blasts Netanyahu for ‘betraying’ Obama
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