the detriment of everyone, including our own interests. jon: we mentioned you have advised six secretaries of state and five presidents, i believe you said. if you were advising mr. obama, what would you tell him the next step ought to snb. >> number one, don't take the united states for granted. i mean, the rest of the world may judge israel by a double standard, but the united states does not. you can afford to alienate your enemies, but you can't afford to alienate your friends. so don't be reckless and don't be indisciplined with respect to settlement construction. jon: you're speaking now to benjamin netanyahu. >> exactly. and as far as the president is concerned, mr. president, the only thing that really is going to address settlement activity is an agreement between the israelis and the palestinians. and you need to focus on the one issue of the four or five that are important that actually could be considered a breakthrough, and that is territory.