You know, the Jews survived the Egyptians, and the Amorites, and the Philistines, and the Greeks, and the Romans, and the Crusaders, and the Inquisition, and the Nazis, and the communists, and the Arabs. So I think we will survive Obama and Rahm as well.
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Israel and the United States have certainly clashed before. When hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to stop settlement building in 1991, President George H.W. Bush withheld U.S. loan guarantees for $10 billion. Public ultimatums delivered at the time mainly by Bush's secretary of state, James Baker, irked many Israelis. But Edward Djerejian, who served under Baker and later became the ambassador in Tel Aviv, says a firm hand is sometimes helpful to Israeli politicians. "Rabin told me once that it can be very useful for an Israeli leader to get a clear message from the U.S. because he can then go to his constituencies and say, 'Look, I know this is tough and I don't like it much, but our best friend wants us to do this, and so we need to do it'," says Djerejian, who now heads the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Rahm Emanuel may be the best friend that Barack Obama sends out to deliver that message.
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