On second thought, that isn’t very shocking.

Via Politico:

Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t even likable enough for President Barack Obama, but the U.S. leader says that’s not the point.

At a news conference Tuesday, Obama barely denied that they don’t get along saying that they have a “businesslike relationship” and then provided a calm, confident, and in his mind, complete, dissection of just what’s wrong with the Israeli prime minister.

The fundamental relationship between the United States and Israel is fine, Obama said, but there’s no getting along with Netanyahu on the centerpiece of American diplomacy in the region: a two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the closing days before his re-election win last week, Netanyahu ruled out the creation of a Palestinian state on his watch.

“I took him at his word that that’s what he meant, and I think that a lot of voters inside of Israel understood him to be saying that fairly unequivocally,” Obama said.

Hopes of a peace process, Obama said, are “dim,” and he refused to make any kind of commitment about what the American response would be to new Palestinian efforts seeking United Nations recognition.

“What we can’t do is pretend that there’s the possibility of something that’s not there, and we can’t continue to premise our public diplomacy based on something everyone knows is not going to happen,” Obama said.