Director
Actors
Publisher	PBS Home Video
Format	DVD NTSC
Length	120
Language	English
Year Published	2016
	Given the historic ties between the United States and Israel, watching the fraying relationship between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who essentially campaigned for his defeat in 2012 – has been a source of considerable fascination. And leave it to Frontline to encapsulate those events, as well as the Israeli leader’s confrontational style, in “Netanyahu at War,” which begins and ends with the Israeli leader’s 2015 speech to Congress advocating against the Iran deal, and deftly putties in all sorts of biographical details, slights and controversies in between. For many in the U.S., Netanyahu became a fixture as a forceful U.S.-based spokesman for Israel during the ’80s (at times, the former U.N. ambassador felt like a de facto co-host of “Nightline”), before returning home to pursue his political ambitions. That included bitter criticism of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1993, unleashing anger that culminated in Rabin’s assassination two years later — with many political rivals, including Rabin’s widow, blaming Netanyahu for helping inflame the passions that resulted in that violence.