Barrack Obama made it clear that was not going to be happy with Bibi Netanyahu over his speech to Express this week.
An unhappy Obama is not a nice person and he has the power to make Netanyahu pretty unhappy too.
So why did Bibi do it?
Was it ego?
Did defying the president cause a thrill to run up his leg?
We doubt it.
It might be kind of cool to thumb your nose to the leader of the free world but Bibi knew that he and his country would have to pay for it.
The price for embarrassing Obama we heard was large and often disproportionate to the original offense.
It is not that Bibi needed to prove his manhood either.
The guy was in Sayeret Matkal for goodness sakes
They are the elite of the elite of the commandos in the Israeli Army.
When he was a teenager Bibi was jumping out of airplanes behind enemy lines and fighting his way back home, not once but at least half a dozen times a year for four years.
Bibi made his bones on the battlefield and then again on the only slightly less dangerous minefield of Israeli politics when Barack Obama was still organizing communities.
So why would Bibi go a couple of thousand miles out of his way just to stick a finger in the eye of the president of the United States?
It could be the upcoming election.
Bibi is not above grandstanding but then again with all the hell that Obama is going to make him and Israel pay even if his speech wins him another term as prime minister it might not be worth it.
So why Bibi?
Why did he do it?
This might sound crazy but maybe there really isn’t a hidden agenda.
Maybe Mr. Netanyahu went to Washington precisely why he said he was.
The nuke deal being worked on by Barack Obama and John Kerry is so bad that it is existential threat not only to Israel but to every other territory in the Middle East and perhaps to the world.
There is no probable way Obama will admit he is wrong. He is just not built that way.
Could it not be possible that Netanyahu went to warn Congress and the American people that if this deal went through that the current blood bath now being waged from Syria to Yemen will be like a day in the park compared to post Iranian Nuclear Age.
Perhaps Obama is wrong.
So far the price Obama has paid in being wrong has been pretty cheap at least for him.
Wrong in Iraq just meant dead Iraqis. Being wrong in Syria meant dead Syrians. Wrong in Libya, dead Libyans and just a few dead Americans. Wrong in the Ukraine has just meant dead eastern Europeans.
Perhaps being wrong about Iran will be just as cheap to Obama.
We think however the price will be huge.
John Kerry asked to be given the benefit of the doubt yesterday regarding Iran.
Why?
If given a choice we would stick with Bibi because unlike Obama and company Bibi cannot afford to lose.
We do not believe that things will remain just hunky dory for America in a post nuaclear Iran world.
Even if we win a nuclear war we still lose.
Kind of a hard concept to wrap our head around but it could actually get really bad here.
There will be no satifaction in saying Bibi told us so either.