administration officials, and others argue it does not go nearly far enough and they have called for secretary kerry to walk away. the feastest opponents including benjamin netanyahu, and mike at oren the bass doral to the united states. he s out with a new book called ally my journey across the american/israeli divide. thank you, ambassador, for being here. thank you. obviously the iran nuclear deal on the table what does an israeli-approved nuclear deal looks lie, obviously they have been pushing back. it s not the netanyahu government but pretty much a national consensus, even the opposition to netanyahu agrees that the deal on the table is a bad deal. so what do you think you re not getting? a couple things. one is dismantling of a much
iran with nuclear weapons. why is that not ever part of the conversation? why is that deterrent not considered? because rafsanjani a moderate leader said it s a one-bomb country. it s not as if there s somebody left around to respond. remember they re the world s greatest sponsor of terror with the nuclear capabilities the terrorists get it. you don t have to work about a and once iran gets the bomb saudi arabia turkey gets the bomb. israel funds it will have? an unstable nuclear enabled. it s not one existential threats, but several. let s turn to your book my journey across the american/israeli divide. you suggest that obama was reached out to the muslim world
with them quite frequently. he spoke about it in his first inaugural address, and his first trip abroad. he spoke about it he thought of himself as a personal bridge between america and what he caused the muslim world. in the book i simply quote what he wrote about himself. it was important for israel to understand this. i also said in the book that if the president could reconcile the united states with parts of this muslim world, as he called it that would be in israel s interests. do you see why some people have taken offense to this thinking you are basically suggesting something that they don t think exists first of all, but also it feeds into this whole obama is a muslim. i understand that. i should be sensitive about that about you at the same time if an individual is writing this
because he wall street abandoned, leading him to seek acceptance by co-religionists. that seems to be a shocking bit of armchair psychology and more to the point because of the 911, war in iraq the need for stability for israel. and it s all in there. as an ambassador. my job was to understand the man to whom i had to represent my government. 2009, and it s so the section of the book called obama 101, where i talk about how i came to this job as a historian, not as a diplomat. i took my historian skills and used them to study the president. i looked at everything he wrote, everything he talked about, and i looked at his policies. he used to talk a lot about his own family connections, about his relationships with his biological father he stepfather his connections with the muslim world and would talk