Powerful words but was Netanyahu right to make speech?
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Indyk: "An affront to the president of the United States"
Prime Minister Netanyahu's fiery address to Congress was an "affront to the president," according to Martin Indyk the former US special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Mr Indyk used to work for Mr Obama so he's partisan, but there are plenty of people who agree that the State of the Union-esque speech was somehow unseemly in a foreign leader.
That said, Mr Netanyahu's words were powerful and will receive a warm reception from many Americans - just as they did from members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike.
"I couldn’t think of any assembly around the world where Netanyahu could go – including Israel – and gotten a reception like that."