During the Bush era we had this, in responce to serious diplomatic work by Rice building up a multi-national consensus that Israel didn't like

“In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour,” Olmert said.

“I said ‘get me President Bush on the phone’. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care. ‘I need to talk to him now’. He got off the podium and spoke to me.”I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour.”

Then we have Obama trying to stop settlement building, which seems to be getting flatly ignored.

So one of the US's closest allies can boast about having the previous President at their beck and call and basically sticks two fingers up at the current one when it suits them.... and people make a fuss that he bowed to the Japanese Emperor and therefore might have shown too much respect?