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Netanyahu's High With Trump Portends an Inevitable Fall
Netanyahu's preferred to curry favor with the new president and his underlings rather than empathize, however faintly, with American Jews.
In his extraordinary press conference with Donald Trump on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a hard time wiping the smug smile off his face, with some justification. For the first time in his political career, Netanyahu was given a royal welcome at the White House. If Barack Obama only did the bare minimum in his honor, Trump gave Netanyahu the best reception possible. He even went out of his way to thank and praise Netanyahu’s wife Sara, ensuring his revered status in the Netanyahu household in particular and in Israel as a whole for many months to come.