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Netanyahu used golf metaphor to turn Trump against Palestinians, book says

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in May 2017.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in May 2017. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Benjamin Netanyahu used maps of Hezbollah missile sites and intelligence gained from a Mossad raid in Tehran to make sure Donald Trump backed Israel in Middle East peace talks and pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, the former Israeli prime minister writes in a new memoir.

But in unconventional scenes similar to those in countless books of reportage and Trump tell-alls, Netanyahu also says that to sway Trump from his desire to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians and to scotch his positive first impression of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, the Israelis deployed golfing metaphors and maps of New York City.

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