Hillary Clinton described Israeli officials as sounding “cocky” in one of the emails released by the State Department from her tenure as secretary of state.
Kim Ghattas, a BBC journalist who covers the State Department, emailed to say the Israelis sounded cocky in their description of a meeting with U.S. officials. Once added to the email thread, Clinton affirmed they “always sound cocky — in the air and on the ground.”
While Clinton has always described herself as a staunch supporter of Israel, there have been tensions between the Obama administration in which she served and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Clinton received an email just days before the prime minister’s 2011 visit detailing a DePaul University boycott of Sabra Hummus, a popular brand sold in America but made in Israel, as part of an “effort to eliminate Israel.” Her correspondent suggested that Clinton “might show this [article] to Netanyahu today” in order to demonstrate to him that “the world is having a nervous breakdown” over Israeli policy.
Clinton responded, “I love Sabra hummus — whatever that means!”
