WASHINGTON – The latest batch of Wikileaks revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really admires Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Netanyahu prefers the stance on Israel of Clinton than that of the current US administration, with one senior Israeli official saying Netanyahu feels Clinton is “more instinctively sympathetic to Israel than the White House,” according to a leaked email released by WikiLeaks.
The WikiLeaks organization on Friday posted what it said were thousands of emails obtained in a hack of the Clinton campaign chairman’s personal email account.
“The Prime Minister always had a ‘surprising good relationship’ with Hillary. ‘She is easy to work with’, and… she is more instinctively sympathetic to Israel than the White House,” Stuart Eizenstat, a former US diplomat and close associate of the Clintons told Clinton’s campaign chief John Podesta and top aide Jake Sullivan.
But despite Netanyahu’s favorable view of Clinton, at least in comparison to the current Obama administration, the prime minister had reservations about how she, as president, would treat Israel, Eizenstat said the offical told him.
“He attended part of the Saban Forum and felt that most of the emphasis was on the Palestinian issue, and wonders if a Clinton Administration ‘will be a Saban Forum for four years’, due to ‘the people around her, but not her,’” the email reads. “Her own speech was “95% good, although there was some moral equivalence language.”
In that speech in December 2015, given to the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum, Clinton said that on her first day in office as president she would reach out to the Israeli prime minister and invite him to the White House in an effort to strengthen US-Israel ties.
Se also stressed that “only a two-state solution can provide Palestinians independence, sovereignty and dignity and provide Israelis the secure and recognized borders of a democratic Jewish state.”
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