On retiring from office in July 2011, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had said that Netanyahu was ungrateful to the United States and endangering Israel.
Povlačeći se iz ureda u srpnju 2011., bivši američki tajnik za obranu Robert Gates, rekao je da je Netanjahu nezahvalan Sjedinjenim Državama i da ugrožava Izrael.