Binyamin Netanyahu is alienating Israel’s best friends
The meaning of Senator Chuck Schumer’s landmark speech
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One day more than 30 years ago, during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, the secretary of state, James Baker, flung a newspaper article at an aide, Daniel Kurtzer, and declared he was going to eject the Israeli ambassador. He was furious about a quotation he had just read from the deputy foreign minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu.
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