In a leaked copy of his new book, Jared Kushner claims that Netanyahu “responded with less-than-expected enthusiasm” and Trump defined him as “the problem”.
By Yoni Kempinski, INN Jul 30, 2022,
Kushner speaks at the official opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in JerusaleYonatan Sindel/Flash90
According to former President Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner, Trump almost took back the decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem following a phone call with former Prime Minister Netanyahu, back in 2017.
The call was reported by The Forward, based on a leaked copy of Kushner’s upcoming book, which was posted online earlier this week by a foreign ministry official from Saudi Arabia.
In Kushner’s book, titled “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” he says that Netanyahu’s reaction disappointed President Trump.
According to Kushner, Netanyahu reacted by saying: “If you choose to do that, I will support you”.
He adds that Netanyahu did not fully understand the implications. President Trump repeated and emphasized that he was going to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy. Following that, Kushner writes: “Again, Bibi responded with less-than-expected enthusiasm.”
“Trump began to second-guess his decision,” Kushner continues, “he wondered aloud why he was taking this risk if the Israeli prime minister didn’t think it was that important.”
“Bibi, I think you are the problem,” Trump responded to Netanyahu. Kushner writes that Netanyahu answered that he was “part of the solution.” Kushner concludes the story by adding: “I could tell that Trump was frustrated”.
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu’s staff responded to the allegations: “Contrary to what was claimed, Prime Minister Netanyahu, who asked President Trump to move the embassy several times, expressed great appreciation for this decision. President Trump told Prime Minister Netanyahu, before making the decision: “I have people who say that this step is dangerous for the United States, what do you think?” – Netanyahu replied to the president that he sees no real danger and that there is no reason not to move the embassy. It is doubtful that if Prime Minister Netanyahu had responded to the president otherwise the transfer of the embassy would have been carried out.”
The men is full of garbage ?
The men is full of garbage ?
I think it’s very interesting.
For decades we Israel lovers support Netanyahu to great fanfare and aplomb – large pictures of him hanging in our gardens even – and yet I can’t help wondering: Is he like the RINO Republicans in America?
Is he part of the Globalist, WEF, Secret Pfizer contract signing locked up for decades set?
I have no idea really.
It would be quite interesting if he were aligned with….Obama AND Bill Clinton AND Bennett all at same time, wouldn’t it?
They had us watching a tennis match between supposed world champion foes when all the important action was really happening in the club room perhaps with fat Al Gore, Bill Gates and some Germans from the WEF and drug companies?
I know this: Netanyahu sold out the Israeli People – the largest group of Jews assembled in our life times, to Pfizer. It’s a disaster health wise, economically and for freedom.
We also know Donald J Trump, hero, is fond of his Warp Speed disaster.
Sorry folks, but what is the truth here?
So, we are to believe that Netanyahu had no real interest in the US fulfilling one of his own long standing policies of recognizing Israel’s capital and moving the embassy based on an anonymous source of an unreleased text? Honestly, at the outset of a political contest, a conveniently “leaked” revelation calling into question Netanyahu’s enthusiasm for US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital certainly fails the trust but verify standard. Furthermore, this is an obvious contrast with Netanyahu’s long standing support for the US to do exactly this, and also contradicts the advocacy and fanfare which he expressed at the time the US recognition was being implemented. Yet, the strongest evidence that this shocking revelation is most certainly quite dubious is the fact that last year when Trump was quite angry with Bibi, and made some very uncomplimentary comments about him, his concern of Bibi’s lack of enthusiasm for his Jerusalem policy was not raised or even suggested. If this leaked claim were true, and Trump believed that it was true, this criticism would certainly have been among the allegations which Trump would have been expected to have charged against Bibi. It is likewise missing from the reports by any other Trump advisor, including Ambassador Friedman and Rabbi Aryeh Lighthouse, among others, with all of whom it would have been expected that Trump would likely have shared his concerns over the supposed lack of Israeli support for this policy.
We will, of course, eventually see what Kushner writes in his tell all volume, and assess the relevance or merit it carries from a non-anonoumous source, ie from the author’s own words. Regardless, though, this claimed charge indicting Netanyahu’s support for the success of a policy that he had long championed seems to hold little veracity on its face and seems to be contradicted by the generalized lack of comment to support it by those who would have no reason to censor Netanyahu’s lack of candor on this topic, particularly if Netanyahu’s lack of support nearly scuttled the entire endeavor.
The story contradicts itself. Does Yoni write for TMZ?