Not really sure why so many zionist panties are in a twist over this speech. Obama took several paragraphs to explicitly condemn anti-semitism and recognize the legitimacy of Israel’s statehood and the horror of the holocaust. Yet because he has chosen to press Israel on the issue of settlement growth (settlements recognized as illegal by the Israeli government) he is now an enemy of Israel?

If there is going to be any progress made towards resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict, marginalizing far-right extremist groups in Israel is clearly going to be just as important as marginalizing arab terrorist groups like Hamas. Obama is being a realist, not an anti-semite.