Rahm Emanuel

I was 20 years ahead.

I knew where this was going to go.

So we got into it, he and I.

to the point that publicly said I was a self-hating, self-loathing Jew was attacked.

And the prime minister and I have always, I disagree with his approach.

And I think, in fact, with this is the first year in Israel's history, there are more people have left than came.

He has led Israel in a way that the endless wars that he's doing

is destroying the fabric of the country.

And I don't think it was good for Israel.

I don't think it's good for the Jewish community of Israel.

And for a host of reasons inside Israel.

And I was upfront about it.

I didn't need, again, as I want to say.

Let's bracket Netanyahu and his political problems.

It's hard to do with the longest serving prime minister to say that he isn't the face of that country.

So there's three things.

I'm not saying, look, I give no pass to a country's self-defense, nor to any of the people of the world.

But even elements of the IDF, Israel Defense Force, were telling him we're just killing for the sake of killing.

The opportunities of security have to be enhanced by diplomacy and politics.

He has never seized that in the way that Yitzhak Rabin did, the way Menachem Begin did, the way Golda Meir did, or the way that Ben-Gurion did.