@EvolLove @Bernard @pepsi_manWhat Do Israelis Think About Americans? Start With Disdain.
By Naomi Zeveloff
March 8, 2015
Though Israel is a famously fractious society, Israelis tend to agree on one thing: Their strongest supporters are an inherently dupable people.
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The naivete Israelis perceive in Americans is not just something they believe only Israel’s adversaries exploit; Israelis believe they can do so, too — and do. In a secretly recorded video of a 2001 discussion with a group of terror victims in the Ofra settlement in the Israeli occupied West Bank, now-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out this widely held perception.
“I know what America is,” Netanyahu, told the settlers. “America is a thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction.”
https://forward.com/israel/216074/what-do-israelis-think-about-americans-start-with/