According to his new memoir, Benjamin Netanyahu used golfing metaphors to turn Donald Trump against the Palestinians.
The Guardian obtained a pre-release copy of Netanyahu's book.
According to The Guardian's reporting, Netanyahu said he used a variety of creative strategies in meetings with Trump to get him to agree with Israel's interests.
The strategy was to use visual aids. According to The Guardian, he wrote in his memoir that he once presented a simple slide showing a map of Israel and New York City.
The distance from Tel Aviv to the 1967 lines was shown by the film. There was a distance from Trump Tower to the bridge.
The distances were the same, according to Netanyahu. There is a distance between Trump Tower and George Washington Bridge. Tel Aviv is close to the 1967 line.
I asked the President if he would allow a regime that wanted to destroy him to set up a state at the bridge. It is absolutely true that not. Netanyahu wrote in his memoir that neither would we.
Netanyahu wrote in his memoir that he and the Israeli ambassador to the US used golf metaphors to get through to Trump.
According to The Guardian, Netanyahu said that Trump had told him that peace with the Emirates was a five foot putt. There is peace with the Saudis. Peace with the Palestinians is achieved through a brick wall.
Trump "got it" according to Netanyahu in his memoir. We moved him to a better place for now.
The US ambassador to Israel and Netanyahu played a video to Trump to adjust his thinking about the Palestinians.
The video was meant to portray Abbas as unreliable, The Guardian said.
The video registered with Netanyahu at some point. The former Israeli prime minister said he hoped the video would cause more bonding between Trump and Abbas.
Toward the end of Trump's time in the White House, his administration came up with a plan to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Abbas rejected the plan and described it as the "slap of the century." Netanyahu praised the plan at a press conference with Trump.
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