{"id":97260,"date":"2016-05-25T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97260"},"modified":"2016-05-25T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:29:15","slug":"which-one-of-these-presidents-was-toughest-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97260","title":{"rendered":"Which one of these presidents was toughest on Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another way of framing the same question is asking which U.S. president was strongest on pursuing America&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>As Israel and America are different countries, they often have different interests. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/cover_story\/article\/why_the_u.s._israel_relationship_is_doomed_to_succeed\">Dennis Ross writes<\/a>: Have the United States and Israel ever had a relationship as bad as the one between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?<br \/>\nThat is a question I am typically asked when speaking about my book \u201cDoomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama.\u201d The answer is yes. Ronald Reagan had a poor relationship with Menachem Begin, saying at one point, \u201cBoy, he is a hard guy to like.\u201d And the only leader in the world who George H.W. Bush dealt with but did not like was Yitzhak Shamir, believing Shamir had misled him in their very first meeting after Bush became president.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another way of framing the same question is asking which U.S. president was strongest on pursuing America&#8217;s interests. As Israel and America are different countries, they often have different interests. 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