Posted by David Bernstein:
A Bizarre Claim About Netanyahu in Ha'aretz:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_05-2009_07_11.shtml#1247176350
[1]Ha'aretz has a story that makes Netanyahu sound like a loon (which,
given Ha'retz's political perspective, is exactly how they want to
make him sound). According to the story:
"He thought that his speech at Bar-Ilan would become mandatory
reading at schools in the United States, and when he realized that
Obama gave no such order, he went back to being frustrated," one of
his associates said.
Oh, come on! Bibi went to high school in the U.S., came back to the
U.S. for graduate school and to work in a consulting job, and served
in the Israeli embassy in Washington and then as Israel's ambassador
to the U.S. Given his extensive background in the U.S., what is the
likelihood that Netanyahu thinks that the President of the United
States has the power, or would have the inclination even if he had the
power, to order that an Israeli prime minister's speech be read in
U.S. public schools? I'd say the likelihood is zero.
I don't know if the correspondent made this story up, or whether he
naively wrote down what someone else told him. But Ha'aretz, which
tries to be a respectable news source, really dropped the ball on this
one. (The story also claims that Netanyahu refers to Axelrod and
Emmanuel as "self-hating Jews," but the author has already lost his
credibility with me.)
References
1. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098853.html
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