binyamin netanyahu did everything in his power to undermine the deal, including speaking to congress as if he was in charge, and in an extraordinary response to that, 60 members of u.s. congress skipped the speech, refused to show up, to acknowledge the legitimacy of the israeli prime minister's effort to undermine the president. that was a huge campaign over the last 18 months or so. what you said was important, while the obama administration, has been more outspoken in criticising israeli settlement policies, the relationship did not change, it's not surprising the members of the security establishment acknowledges that president obama is the movement pro-israeli president in modern history, because of the amount of money provided by the u.s. taxpayers to the military, and the protection in the united nations that made sure that no israeli officials were ever threatened to the possibility of consequences for war crimes, whether in gaza in terms of settlement and elsewhere. we have this contradiction between a political statement, politically president obama was critical of the sett