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.
staying neutral so far. yeah, that s interesting. no, but i would disagree with tucker, i think that it would undercut sarah palin if she did not go and endorse if her the nominee that put her on the ticket asked her to come to arizona and she begged off, i think that would be bigger news for her to deal with and would question whether or not she was loyal to john mccain, after saying this guy should be commander in chief. i think she was a bit bocked in frankly by inviting her out, they put her on the spot and she s come out there, but it is interesting the tea party folks have decided to remain neutral. that goes right to what we re saying, which is their hearts are probably with her, but their heads are with j.d. heyworth. heirworth. jane: we will see, thank you both. jon: our closest ally in the middle east, israel of course but that country s prime minister, benjamin netanyaho according to media reports felt humiliated by his meeting with president