Does Susan Rice think Benjamin Netanyahu is a racist?

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Dennis Ross’ book about the United States-Israel relationship is about to come out, and it includes a bombshell revelation about tensions between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ross, in a passage excerpted from the book Thursday in Politico, says that Susan Rice, the US national security adviser, was so furious with Netanyahu’s angry reaction to news of an acceleration in Iran nuclear talks in November 2013 that she told Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s then-director, that Netanyahu did everything but “use the ‘N-word’ in describing the president.”

Ross — the former peace negotiator who worked for Obama on Middle East issues, including Iran says — says he understood Rice to be accusing Netanyahu not of racism, but of attacking the president in nearly every other way. Ross’ book is titled “Doomed to Succeed: The US-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama.”

Issues of race have popped up more than once in the relationship between Obama and American Jews and Israel. Notable examples are: Obama’s disavowal of his anti-Semitic pastor, Jeremiah Wright; racist expressions about Obama from those identified with Netanyahu; black lawmakers otherwise sympathetic to Israel seeing Netanyahu’s speech to Congress as part of a pattern of white comeuppance, and Obama’s fury with Netanyahu for making a bogeyman of bused-in Arab voters during Israel’s March election .

So did Rice, in her conversation with Foxman, mean to say Netanyahu was a racist?

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1. Anger can cause people to say things they would not otherwise say.

But anger can also reveal hidden feelings.

Netanyahu is definitely a war criminal, truly a leader who uses apartheid style tactics and a leader who appears more than willing to conduct war against defenseless civilians.

Could he also be a racist? It might explain why he was willing to insult the President by addressing the GOP members of Congress.