Looking for a scapegoat

President Obama's Mideast policy has imploded. His decision to demand a total construction freeze has backfired and hurt both sides. Under his much-touted "engagement" policy, the peace process has gone from the Emergency Room to the Coma Center. Now the next step is to look for a good scapegoat. Here's one: Israel! As Caroline Glick comments here in The Jerusalem Post, Obama's recent attempt to humiliate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not just shameful and unprecedented, it's also the surest sign of failure. Meanwhile, the people of Israel-- aware that Israel is hardly the only party to blame for the fiasco-- is sticking by its leader.

"Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of "putting light" between America and Israel. His hostility toward Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter's visit to Washington this week was breathtaking.
It isn't every day that you can see an American president leaving the prime minister of an allied government twisting in the wind for weeks before deciding to grant him an audience at the White House.
It isn't every day that a visiting leader from a strategically vital US ally is brought into the White House in an unmarked van in the middle of the night rather than greeted like a friend at the front door; is forbidden to have his picture taken with the president; is forced to leave the White House alone, through a side exit; and is ordered to keep the contents of his meeting with the president secret.
Ahead of Obama's meeting with Netanyahu, The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was effectively attempting to blackmail the Israeli premier by conditioning the meeting on Netanyahu's willingness to make tangible concessions to the Palestinians during his speech before the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Although the report was denied by the Obama administration, if it was true, such a move by the White House would be without precedent in the history of US relations with Israel. And if untrue, the very fact that the story rings true is indicative of the wretched state of US relations with Israel since Obama entered office."