Who elected Ehud Barak?

Am I the only Israeli out there who is bothered by the fact that the Obama administration has decided that it is going to do business with Israel through Ehud Barak - whose views are much closer to its own - rather than through Israel's elected government? Barak, after all, is the leader (for now at least) of a party that won 12 seats in the last election, and would win much fewer seats if