than take the galut out of the Jews.” Galut is Hebrew for
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” I said. It was nonsensical to argue we were so threatened by
” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of
with a military as effective as any in the world
President Clinton and now President Obama. In terms of Israeli
President Obama disagreed with us on issues of policy
the sense of crisis he encouraged gave him
missiles on its northern and southern borders
that enticed him. Almost everything he did seemed
I think it was the politics of the scheme
or at the very least to refrain from criticizing it. In other
against the explicit wishes of President
as some non-Israelis saw it – was that we were
the strike force that we were assembling was also
at least now a majority of the key players in Israel
the issue of Iran had taken on much greater urgency. There was
integrating sophisticated Israeli radar and guidance technology and
cruise missiles and aircraft; and our new Iron
given the tension between the Americans and Bibi. That wasn’t just
we had to win at least their understanding