Some Perspective on Obama and Israel

One area in which Mr. Obama has gotten a bum-rap in my opinion is Israel. Yes, the man did a) stiff Netanyahu and b) make that comment about the '67 borders with land swaps but I have to ask you here, taken in the broader historical context, are either of these two things really THAT BAD?...............................................................................For example, is what the President did to Netanyahu any stiffer of a rebuke than what the then Secretary of State, Jimmy Baker, did to Yitzhak Shamir during the first Bush administration? And the whole '67 border thing arguably isn't all that different from either the Barak concrete proposal of 2000 or even the Ehud Olmert framework of several years later. Yes, I will grant you that the President does on occasion come across as condescending and detached but on this specific situation, a hell of a lot more has been made of it than warranted, I think.