{Dennis Ross, a top foreign policy aide to President Bill Clinton, complained that, “Netanyahu was nearly insufferable, lecturing us and telling us how to deal with the Arabs.” According to Ross, Clinton disdainfully observed that Netanyahu “Thinks he is the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires.”}
{Netanyahu opposed it. “This is a bad deal,” Netanyahu told a joint session of both US chambers. “A very bad deal. We’re better off without it.” Democrats were outraged; one called the speech a “stick in Obama’s eye.”}
