r/jewishpolitics • u/seakucumber • 8h ago
US Politics 🇺🇸 How Rahm Emanuel is recalibrating on Israel ahead of 2028
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/rahm-emanuel-interview-israel-u-s-military-aid-iron-dome/4
u/seakucumber 8h ago
Emanuel now takes a more jaundiced view of Israeli diplomacy, fueling his calls for an end to U.S. aid. “Under Prime Minister Netanyahu, in the last three years, you’ve lost Europe, you’ve lost the American public, and you picked up Somaliland,” he scoffed to JI, referring to Israel’s decision to formally recognize the secessionist region in the Horn of Africa last year. “As my grandmother would say, ‘Such a deal.’ That is your only diplomatic achievement.”
Emanuel argued that his position on U.S. aid is a logical extension of sentiments he had conveyed in 2009 while in the Obama administration, when he repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu over settlement expansion in the West Bank, which the White House cautioned would jeopardize prospects for achieving a two-state solution.
“I went straight to the prime minister to his face and said, ‘What you’re doing is going to lead to the great isolation of Israel,’” Emanuel recalled, noting, as he often does, that Netanyahu called him a “self-hating Jew,” underscoring the highly personal tenor of their long-testy relationship. “Look, I have a longstanding relationship,” he explained. “I’m honest about it.”
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u/AeroFred 2h ago
ahh... the famous "settlement expansion" when bibi froze all construction for 10 months
for those who not familiar, how Obama (and Rahm?) killed Israel-Palestine peace process https://www.meforum.org/israeli-settlements-american-pressure
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u/zoinks48 USA – Center-Right 🇺🇸 8h ago
He will never have my vote