Copyrighted Image? DMCA | When David Axelrod, then a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, first learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly had referred to him and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as "self-hating Jews," he remembers feeling stung. "For people to suggest that I would be anti-Israel or worse, anti-Semitic -- it hurts," Axelrod recalled of the 2009 episode. "The trust is gone on both sides; there's too much water under the bridge between those two leaders now," said interviewee Martin Indyk, who served as the administration's special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace in 2013 and 2014. |
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