McCain: ‘Get over temper tantrum Obama’

US senator John McCain accused President Barack Obama of throwing a “temper tantrum” over comments by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding to the conflict between the White House and the Republican-dominated Congress over Israel.

McCain, asked on CNN’s State of the Union show if US-Israel relations were at a dangerous point, said, “I think that’s up to the president of the United States.”

Obama’s sensitive relationship with Netanyahu was strained further by comments Netanyahu made in the closing moments of his successful campaign for re-election last week.