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Jeffrey Goldberg: Obama and Netanyahu Don’t Like or Trust Each Other
DICKERSON: “What did you feel about the administration’s — the way they’ve been playing this? You know, the relationship has to exist on Wednesday, Susan Rice’s comments.”
GOLDBERG: “Right.”
DICKERSON: “What was your reaction?”
GOLDBERG: “Well, the relationship is — this is a very, very important point you make. The relationship must exist and must function on Wednesday, because we’re about to head into this very intense period where if the United States makes this deal with Iran, it’s going to have to give strategic reassurance to not only Israel, but all of the Arab states. And so they have to have good communications and some level of trust. I would think, at this point, that the administration realizes that it needs to pull back a little bit from the heated rhetoric. There is — there is amnesty, genuine amnesty between this administration and the Netanyahu administration.”
DICKERSON: “What about —”
GOLDBERG: “But it’s too dangerous. You can’t have it at a certain point.”
DICKERSON: “And how about between the president and the prime minister?”
GOLDBERG: “Well, you know, I — I asked the president, in 2012, I asked him, I said, do you — are you and Netanyahu friends? And he gave me a very elegant answer. He said, well, you know, we’re so busy with our own jobs that it’s hard to — but that was [indecipherable] the point. They really don’t like each other. They really actively don’t like each other and trust each other. And that is a problem for allies.”
Mar. 2, 2015
DICKERSON: “What did you feel about the administration’s — the way they’ve been playing this? You know, the relationship has to exist on Wednesday, Susan Rice’s comments.”
GOLDBERG: “Right.”
DICKERSON: “What was your reaction?”
GOLDBERG: “Well, the relationship is — this is a very, very important point you make. The relationship must exist and must function on Wednesday, because we’re about to head into this very intense period where if the United States makes this deal with Iran, it’s going to have to give strategic reassurance to not only Israel, but all of the Arab states. And so they have to have good communications and some level of trust. I would think, at this point, that the administration realizes that it needs to pull back a little bit from the heated rhetoric. There is — there is amnesty, genuine amnesty between this administration and the Netanyahu administration.”
DICKERSON: “What about —”
GOLDBERG: “But it’s too dangerous. You can’t have it at a certain point.”
DICKERSON: “And how about between the president and the prime minister?”
GOLDBERG: “Well, you know, I — I asked the president, in 2012, I asked him, I said, do you — are you and Netanyahu friends? And he gave me a very elegant answer. He said, well, you know, we’re so busy with our own jobs that it’s hard to — but that was [indecipherable] the point. They really don’t like each other. They really actively don’t like each other and trust each other. And that is a problem for allies.”
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