Netanyahu uses icy relationship with Obama to try to win votes

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Netanyahu uses icy relationship with Obama to try to win votes
Reuters, Mar 28, 2019, Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is using a second American president in his re-election campaign ads, but with a twist, featuring a famously frosty encounter with Barack Obama.

The right-wing prime minister put up billboards several weeks ago picturing a smiling President Donald Trump shaking his hand - highlighting warm ties marked by dramatic U.S. policy moves that Netanyahu has welcomed with delight.

A video Netanyahu posted on Thursday on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram portrayed his cold relationship with Trump’s predecessor to try to attract votes.

It shows a 2011 Oval Office meeting in which Netanyahu lectured a grim-looking Obama on how the Democrat’s vision of ways to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic.

“In the face of all pressure, I will always protect our country,” Netanyahu wrote in Hebrew in a caption above the link to the video clip, credited to a 2016 U.S. PBS documentary, on his Facebook page.


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Support for Israel used to be a bipartisan given in American politics.  Between Omar and this I guess we can kiss those days goodbye.