How Netanyahu Lost America
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Instead of selling cupboards to Israelis, he should have been selling Israel to Americans. The ambassador, who met Netanyahu at a conference a few years earlier, brought him to Washington as his deputy. And it is a task at which Netanyahu, as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has failed abjectly.Just over a decade ago, support for Israel was one of the last remaining bipartisan reflexes in American politics.
- ▪Instead of selling cupboards to Israelis, he should have been selling Israel to Americans.
- ▪The ambassador, who met Netanyahu at a conference a few years earlier, brought him to Washington as his deputy.
- ▪And it is a task at which Netanyahu, as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has failed abjectly.Just over a decade ago, support for Israel was one of the last remaining bipartisan reflexes in American politics.
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- ▪ How Asia Learned to Live With “America First” — Foreign Affairs
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IdeasHow Netanyahu Lost AmericaThe prime minister, a self-styled expert on the U.S., has shattered his country’s standing.By Franklin FoerMark Peterson / Redux for The AtlanticJuly 27, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave In 1982, Benjamin Netanyahu was the marketing director of a Jerusalem-based furniture maker when Israel’s ambassador in Washington decided that the 32-year-old had been pitching the wrong product. Instead of selling cupboards to Israelis, he should have been selling Israel to Americans. The ambassador, who met Netanyahu at a conference a few years earlier, brought him to Washington as his deputy.
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