HUFFINGTON POST
Scenes from a Marriage: The Worst Relationship Between a U.S. President and an Israeli Prime Minister Ever – As Autopsied by the People Closest to Them
by Amir Tibon and Tal Shalev, additional reporting by Ryan Grim
November 12, 2015

…Netanyahu has said that he and Obama are “like a married couple”— the implication being that they may not love each other, but that they’re stuck together in the same mutual endeavor. Over the past year, however, we have spoken to nearly 50 former and current officials in Israel and the United States, and their interpretations are far less charitable. They speak not only of a relationship that has soured irreparably, due to a string of miscalculations on both sides—but also of lasting damage to the Israeli-U.S. alliance…[in 2009] When Netanyahu and a handful of aides finally arrived at the White House one American official noticed that the prime minister was carefully examining the pictures, furniture and decorations, as if trying to figure out what had changed since his visits there as prime minister in the ‘90s. After a short ceremony, Obama and Netanyahu were left by themselves for a “four eyes” conversation. READ MORE