E.J. Dionne Jr.

And then when he says they need to help me in the Strait of Hormuz and they're a little reluctant, he says, oh, my God, why aren't they helping me?

Aren't they terrible for not helping me?

And so how to lose influence with friends is the title of, I think, the president's memoir about this period.

Yeah.

It's very possible.

E.J.?

I think that you can go all the way back to when Netanyahu appeared before Congress, and he was invited by the Republicans, notably, not the Democrats, and gave a speech attacking President Obama's deal with Iran.

And to have a foreign leader come before Congress at the invitation of only one party—

I think, began to drive a wedge through our politics.

And I think, you know, historically, liberals and progressives were broadly sympathetic to Israel.

Most liberals and progressives also very staunchly supported, you know, Palestinian autonomy, two states.

But that was the consensus.

I think after Gaza, that began to break up.

You know, many of us are old enough to remember Prime Minister Rabin, are old enough to remember Labor Israel.

For many young people, they have only known this Israel under Bibi Netanyahu.

The war is, I think, very awkward.

And, you know, the administration itself has made it more awkward when Marco Rubio came out and said to try to explain this war and said, well, we knew Israel was going to do it.

And so then we had to go out because we had to defend our bases.

First, it was nonsense in terms of whether we went into the war, but it was a remarkable thing to say.

And so the administration, in its many inconsistencies about this war, has opened that door.