article_snippet: The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is in the U.S. to tell Congress that the deal being discussed is a bad one -- simultaneously injecting U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper into the partisan rancor of Washington and seeking to derail what would be the signature foreign policy achievement of Obama's second term.
article_snippet: Netanyahu appears to have accepted Netanyahu is now part and parcel of the toxic atmosphere in Washington, saying Netanyahu was going "because Congress is likely to be the final brake before the agreement between the major powers and Iran."
article_snippet: David Rothkopf, no fan of Obama's policy on Iran, wrote in Foreign Policy last month that "Netanyahu's decision to accept [House Speaker John]
article_snippet: Boehner's invitation to address Congress on the dangers of the deal being discussed is a case of sending the wrong man at the wrong time to give the wrong speech in the wrong place.
article_snippet: In the days running up to Netanyahu's speech, the U.S. officials have lined up to warn of the U.S. consequences.
article_snippet: National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the wrong speech would be "destructive of the fabric of the relationship" between Israel and the U.S.
article_snippet: Rarely if ever has the U.S.-Israeli relationship become so imbued with such animosity.
article_snippet: Last summer, Israeli ministers ridiculed Kerry's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza; Netanyahu has also repeatedly lectured Obama about the realities of the Middle East.
article_snippet: Now Kerry seems to take almost gratuitous pleasure in telling Netanyahu Kerry is wrong.
article_snippet: Last week Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that interim agreements with Iran had made Israel safer, and the Israeli Prime Minister "was wrong" to oppose interim agreements with Iran, just as Kerry had been wrong in Kerry enthusiastic support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
article_snippet: Some have even suggested that Netanyahu's aggressive opposition has only energized U.S. officials in the belief that "if Some're doing something that really pisses off Bibi, Some must be doing something right," as Rothkopf colorfully put it.