President Reuven Rivlin said on Thursday that the tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama has him 'worried' since 'for the first time I see that we are in isolation.' The president made the remarks as part of a wide-ranging interview with Ben Caspit of The Jerusalem Post's Hebrew-language sister daily Ma'ariv. 'Yes, I am very concerned about the front that has been opened up between Obama and Netanyahu [and its impact on] relations with the United States,' Rivlin said. 'The prime minister has waged a campaign against the US as if the two sides were equal,' the president said. 'And this is liable to hurt Israel itself. I must say that he understands the US better than I do, but, nonetheless, I must say that we are quite isolated internationally.' 'When you have a prime minister and a president of democratic countries such as the US and Israel turn into hawks, this concerns me greatly,' Rivlin said. 'I'm not an alarmist, but for the first time I see that we are isolated.'
