Yesterday Haaretz claimed that Bibi was privately referring to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod as "self-hating Jews." You knew it wasn't true because 1) Haaretz, like most foreign papers, reports a lot of things that aren't true (see last month's reporting in the same paper on the imminent release of Gilad Shalit for an example) and 2) the reporter buried the claim at the bottom of his piece -- at the end of the eighth graph. Now comes the perfunctory denial. Of course, even though the Haaretz story wasn't true, you know Bibi calls these guys a lot worse than that in closed door meetings, and one can only imagine the colorful language Rahm uses to describe the Israeli Prime Minister when there are no reporters around. A far more interesting question is how do these two respective government's describe, say, the Iranian leadership in closed door meetings? It's not a huge leap to imagine Barack Obama asking Leon Panetta, 'so should I send another letter to the Supreme Leader?'
Michael Goldfarb
Self-Hating Jews
Yesterday Haaretz claimed that Bibi was privately referring to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod as "self-hating Jews." You knew it wasn't true because 1) Haaretz, like most foreign papers, reports a lot of things that aren't true (see last month's reporting in the same paper on the imminent release…
Michael Goldfarb · July 10, 2009
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