Rahm Emanuel
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That's another topic I hope we can get into.
Now, to Israel, somebody, and I want to say this to you, look, I didn't need a war to know that this prime minister was not good.
2009, I don't know if you know this, we got in such a public fight when I was president of Obama's chief of staff.
Publicly, he called me a self-loathing Jew.
Is this when he came and addressed Congress?
No, that was 2015.
This is 2009.
Okay.
My disagreement with him, and it's gotten pretty direct, was over housing in the West Bank because I thought he was destroying a two-state solution.
If you destroy that, Israel was on a course to endless wars.
A lot of other people thinking about running for national office were lip-syncing his stuff.
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.