Israel's Shield No More

From Politico:

In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decisive reelection, the Obama administration is revisiting longtime assumptions about America’s role as a shield for Israel against international pressure. 

Angered by Netanyahu’s hard-line platform toward the Palestinians, top Obama officials would not rule out the possibility of a change in American posture at the United Nations, where the U.S. has historically fended off resolutions hostile to Israel. 

And despite signals from Israel suggesting that Netanyahu might walk back his rejection, late in the campaign, of a Palestinian state under his watch, Obama officials say they are taking him at his word.

So Obama will take Netanyahu at his word, but he won't take Palestinian leaders at their word that they intend to destroy Israel.

Obama will take Netanyahu at his word, but he won't take Iran's threats to wipe Israel off the map to mean what they say.

Obama hates Israel. Jews have to understand he is no friend.

Mark Levin: Anti-Semitism Reeks From This Administration… The President Is anti-Semitic

Mark Levin: This is important. Eric Holder said that this nation is full of cowards because we won’t have a discussion about race. Well I think this nation needs to have a discussion about what’s going on in this White House and this administration about anti-Semitism. And, this White House, because it’s reaching out to Sharpton, Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and all these radical nutjobs and groups. Their policies are, it’s not just Netanyahu, they’re willing to throw Israel over the side for the Islamic regime in Tehran. This president’s former relationships – Khalidi, the professor from Columbia now, with Wright, the so-called reverend from Chicago. This president has a lot to answer for and his conduct is contemptible… Mr. Holder, Mr. Obama, let’s have a national discussion about the anti-Semitism that reeks from your administration. 

Sean Hannity: Do you think the president is anti-Semitic, Mark? 

Mark Levin: I personally do. Yes, I do. Has he demonstrated otherwise? Israel is surrounded. Israel was attacked by Hamas. His State Department puts out these proposterous statements about moral relevancy.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS, from Neo-Neocon:

In mulling over the origins of Obama’s anti-Israel venom, I kept thinking of Edward Said. I had some vague memory that Said had been teaching at Columbia when Obama was there, and that they later were friends or something of the sort. As quick as you can say “Google!,” up came a long list of articles about that very thing. The allegations are that Said was important in shaping Obama’s views of the region:

Prior to his death in 2003, Said was the leading anti-colonial thinker in the United States. Obama studied with Said at Columbia University and the two maintained a relationship over the next two decades. Obama attended a Palestinian fundraiser in Chicago in 1998 in which Said was the featured speaker, and Obama also befriended Said’s protege Rashid Khalidi, who currently occupies the Edward Said chair of Arab Studies at Columbia.
Said wasn’t a mere academic; for a time, he served as a member of the Palestine National Council. In this capacity he worked closely with Yasser Arafat. Said has been photographed throwing rocks at Israel to symbolize his support for armed resistance against the Jewish state; one Jewish magazine dubbed him a “Professor of Terror.”

More here and here. In summary, it is highly likely that Obama’s views on Israel have “evolved” during his administration in much the way that his views on gay marriage have: that is, that he was always considerably anti-Israel and pro-Palestine, but that until now he’s felt he had to dissemble about it until freed from the need to care what the US public thinks.