On Meet the Press, David Gregory repeatedly challenged Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a 2002 statement in which he said Israel had “no better friend” in the White House than George W. Bush. Gregory asked Netanyahu whether Barack Obama was as good a friend to Israel as Bush had been.

“David you’re trying to throw me under the bus of American politics, and I’m not going to be thrown there,” Netanyahu said. “They’re [e.g. U.S. presidents] all friends of Israel equally representing this friendship from America.”