President Obama disagreed with us on issues of policy
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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
or Independence. We remained in Bibi’s government.
was giving Bibi political cover for abandoning any serious
I was under increasing pressure from within Labor to pull out of Bibi’s
I found myself in New York at the same time as
in the expectation Washington would ensure the freeze was