bibi netanyahu in particular has exercised enormous influence on the president's ability to conduct foreign policy has really put a lot of pressure on him and has limited his ability to basically live out a lot of the promises that he made obama made on the campaign trail whether it was to engage in diplomacy with iran to prevent war with iran anything that this president is trying to do he's been hit hard by. basically you know whose allies in congress and in the right wing establishment so now israel is going as far as to say that if and when they launch an attack on iran that they're only going to give the us twelve hours notice so not too much notice there with this statement does this suggest that war with iran is even closer than expected i think we need to be careful you know when when israel is engaging in this sort of public rhetoric. is maybe not what we need to be as concerned as when they go silent you don't necessarily want to project that you're going to engage in these strikes right before you do them because it makes it less likely that they're going to have any degree of su