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Do Israelis think Netanyahu is ‘chickensh*t’? Maybe, but they like him that way

On: October 31, 2014

By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — An anonymous White House staffer apparently isn’t the only one who thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is shy about taking chances. A piece this week in The Atlantic magazine by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg ignited a firestorm with its revelation that an ObamaContinue Reading

White House attempts to distance itself from Netanyahu slur

By: Federation

On: October 29, 2014

In: The Jewish World

(JNS.org) The White House on Wednesday attempted to distance itself from comments by an anonymous senior U.S. official who called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” “Certainly that’s not the administration’s view, and we think such comments are inappropriate and counter-productive,” Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the National SecurityContinue Reading