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 b ...

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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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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.