HOW BIBI LEARNED TO TRUST BARACK

摘要

For the past three years, barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu have had a relationship of mutual-and deepening-distrust. At their first meeting, in May 2009, Obama privately asked the Israeli Prime Minister to embrace the creation of a Palestinian state, but Netanyahu refused. A year later, at the height of the greatest U.S.-Israeli tensions in a generation, Obama left Netanyahu negotiating with White House aides in the West Wing while he went to dinner with his family, a move dubbed "the Snub" in the international media after it was leaked. By the time of their encounter in May 2011, Netanyahu was lecturing Obama in front of the cameras and rallying Congress against the President's peace proposals.