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Why US presidents end up cursing Benjamin Netanyahu

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par Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University

When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered a strike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut on June 14, Donald Trump was not amused. Fearing that the attack threatened an agreement with Iran on ending the war between the two countries, the US president lashed out. Netanyahu, he said, has “no fucking judgment”.

He was not the first US president to be moved to curse words by the Israeli leader.

When Bill Clinton first met Netanyahu in the summer of 1996, Netanyahu lectured…

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