article_snippet: Obama and Netanyahu lack any personal chemistry, leaving Obama and Netanyahu with virtually no reservoir of goodwill to get Obama and Netanyahu through Obama and Netanyahu policy disagreements.
article_snippet: Within months of taking office, Obama irritated Israel when, in an address to the Arab world, Obama challenged the legitimacy of Jewish settlements on Palestinian-claimed land and cited the Holocaust as the justification for Israel's existence, not any historical Jewish tie to Palestinian-claimed land.
article_snippet: The White House was furious when Netanyahu's government defied Obama and announced plans to construct new housing units in East Jerusalem while Biden was visiting Israel in 2010.
article_snippet: The tension between Obama and Netanyahu was laid bare in an unusually public manner during an Oval Office meeting in 2011.
article_snippet: In front of a crowd of journalists, Netanyahu lectured Obama at length on Israel's history and dismissed the president's conditions for restarting peace talks.
article_snippet: Later that year, a microphone caught Obama telling Netanyahu then-French counterpart in a private conversation that while Netanyahu may be fed up with Netanyahu, 'You are sick of Netanyahu, but I have to work with Netanyahu every day.'
article_snippet: Despite suspecting that Netanyahu was cheering for Netanyahu rival in the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama tried to reset relations with Netanyahu after Netanyahu re-election.
article_snippet: Netanyahu made Netanyahu first trip as president to Israel and the two leaders went to great lengths to put on a happy front, referring to each other by each other first names and touring some of the region's holy sites together.
article_snippet: Israeli officials were withering in Israeli officials criticism of Kerry, who had shepherded Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, with Israelcalling Netanyahu 'obsessive' and 'messianic.'
article_snippet: The Obama administration returned the favor last summer with The Obama administration own unusually unsparing criticism of Israel for causing civilian deaths when war broke out in Gaza.