“Lord Have Mercy!  Just when I think I’ve heard all the hateful rhetoric from this evil president and his minions, it gets worse.  Remember a few weeks ago when Valeri Jared said that all those who were against the president would be sorry?  Well it’s begun.”

Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel expressed blunt words about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend at a closed forum in Washington. Though the rules of the meeting with reporters, Mideast scholars and politicians were that remarks were off-the-record, a Netanyahu rival during his own speech blurted out the gist of Emanuel’s angry criticism of the Israeli prime minister.

It was the headline Monday of the Israeli paper Yediot Aharonot, which reports (Blaze translation of hard copy of paper):

The tension between the prime minister and the American president is mounting. Rahm Emanuel, someone close to President Obama, over the weekend sharply attacked Netanyahu over his support for Mitt Romney and said: “This man Netanyahu bet on the wrong man – and lost.”

Simply stated, Emanuel accused Netanyahu of meddling in the American elections. Though this was a popular theme in the liberal Israeli media leading up to November 6, the prime minister never publicly endorsed either candidate.

Speaking at the closed meeting on the sidelines of the Saban Forum, Emanuel reportedly recalled the tense Oval Office meeting last year between Obama and Netanyahu in which Netanyahu was accused of “lecturing” the president by explaining why Israel cannot withdraw to “indefensible” 1967 borders and maintain its security. Only a day before that meeting, Obama called for the 1967 borders to be the boundary of a Palestinian state, the first president to endorse that idea.

via Report: Rahm Emanuel Bluntly Accuses Netanyahu of Betting on Wrong Candidate in U.S. Elections During Closed DC Forum | TheBlaze.com.

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