Does Obama Hate Israel?

It certainly seems that way from how he blew a "snub" of settlements in East Jerusalem that even took Netanyahu by surprise into a scary rift between the two allies. Now it looks like he damaged the peace process.

Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has adopted Obama’s original demand as his own: He’s saying he won’t begin even the indirect, “proximity” talks he previously agreed to until Israel accepts the Clinton terms on Jerusalem. How could he do otherwise? The Palestinian leader cannot be less pro-Palestinian than the White House. But Abbas cannot climb down from his position so easily -- which means that, for the second time in a year, the Middle East peace process has been stalled by a U.S.-engineered deadlock. U.S. and Israeli negotiators worked until 3 a.m. Wednesday in an attempt to come up with a formula that would allow the talks to go forward. They met again Wednesday morning. So far, no luck.

So Obama essentially tied Abbas's hands with his demand to "stop all settlements." Abbas certainly can't say East Jerusalem settlement activities are okay when Obama himself has said that all settlements must be stopped in order for the two sides to even sit down. That is a demand that Israel can't 100% back since most building in the Israeli parts of East Jerusalem seemed okay until now. Then he treats Netanyahu like a tin-pot dictator:

Finally, Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers record the president’s meeting with Netanyahu; no statement was issued afterward.

Um, wouldn't if be a better idea to have had that joint press conference to say that you stand behind one of your only allies in the entire Middle East? Instead it seems like it was a calculated insult to get some "payback" for humiliating Biden.

I can see this behavior toward Iran but why Israel? Could it be that Obama subscribes to the Israel is the enemy and Palestinians are all blameless that infects the left? Maybe it is time for Jewish Americans to abandon the Democratic party because the Obama White House seems almost hostile to Israel and likes to treat their leader like he was a nobody.