Why Rahm Emanuel has got Netanyahu’s Somaliland strategy all wrong

Recognizing the independent republic is the opening move to anchor Israel as an indispensable security power in the region. On a recent visit to Israel, former Obama administration Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Somaliland strategy, arguing that Israel had “lost Europe” and “lost America,” and was left with only the small republic in the Horn of Africa.