While supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent Wednesday celebrating his surprise victory at the polls, the Obama administration took a much dimmer view of the results.

Yet now that Netanyahu has been reelected, the two leaders will have to work with each other for the next two years. How their troubled relationship will affect cooperation on the high-stakes issues facing both countries—Iran's nuclear program, regional violence and the future of the Palestinians—remains to be seen. Washington warns that it could diminish America's historic support for Israel at the U.N., as well as any White House ambitions of brokering further Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

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