Obama is not to be feared
…The idea that Israel, as a sovereign nation and most trusted ally of the US, ought to fear the American president for not kowtowing to his every foreign policy whim is distasteful in the extreme.
Worse, it is an incalculable insult to Obama. What these commentators are implying is that Obama is so petty and immature that as pay-back to Netanyahu and Israel for defying him, he will throw both under a bus. I do not believe this about Obama. I believe him to be a mature and dignified leader, even as I disagree with him profoundly on many substantive issues.