Rahm Emanuel

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.

And as somebody that participated in both Oslo Accords for President Clinton, the Y Plantation Agreement, the agreement in Aqaba between Israel and the state of Georgia, in all those processes, he has isolated the state of Israel.

Not only has he lost world opinion for Israel, he's losing in the United States.

So I can't, what he didn't do

is, you know, as Yitzhak Rabin famously said, you make peace like there's no terror, and you fight terror like there's no peace.

He has never extended himself politically on the diplomatic front.

Now, there's three chapters to Israel.

There's one, which was Egypt, Jordan, and the Abraham Accords making peace with stable governments and parties.

Second was unilateral decisions on Lebanon and Gaza that gave you Hamas and Hezbollah.