dion of "the washington post" and msnbc analyst and janeane zakaria. janeane, talk to us about the israeli media and how tightly they are connected to the israeli government and how reliable quotes like that are in the israeli media from the israeli government. >> well, they're very much in sync, and you'll hear when an israeli goes on tv, i heard from a senior official from the prime minister's office, and that's usually the prime minister himself or a top aide, so they're very much in sync. very often they'll just run out with whatever that senior official has told them and there isn't much effort always to try to get a confirmation from the united states side about whether it's what john kerry said in the phone call or what president obama, as we saw as well, with the release of an alleged transcript of a conversation between the prime minister and the president. so they're very tightly synced. >> so we have what's possibly an accurate quote from a very senior official or very senior officials in jerusalem, accusing john kerry of launching "a strate