LOSING MORTIMER:

Obama Constantly Puts Mideast Blame On Israel, Not Arabs (Morton M. Kondracke, 4/05/10, Roll Call)

On all fronts, President Barack Obama ’s policies in the Middle East are failing. So what is the president doing? Taking it out on America’s closest ally, Israel. [...]

Obama gives every indication of believing the “Arab narrative” of what blocks Middle East peace — namely, Israeli (not Palestinian) intransigence.

His animus isn’t into Jimmy Carter territory yet — Carter likens Israel to apartheid South Africa — but Obama is given to outbursts of rage at Israeli “provocations,” but none to those committed on the Palestinian side.