"....Obama can't be given a pass on Israel simply because right-wing racist Jews wield it as a weapon against him......"

That's an ad hominem attack. Give us some evidence of "right-wing racist Jews" smearing Obama. Any Jews who criticizes Obama is a right-wing racist? If not, where does that description come from? Not from anything in this blogpost or comment thread.

"....He
could argue that as a staunch Zionist he fears Israel cannot survive as
a Jewish state without a separation and accommodation with the
Palestinians......"

This is boilerplate rhetoric, every presidential candidate is going to punch that ticket. Big deal. The problem for a US president is what to actually DO to achieve that, if anything. all you have to do is turn on the TV to see Israel is not the problem. Israel cannot accomodate with terrorists and survive. as soon as the Palestinians stop being terrorists, talks will mean something. that isn't going to happen any time soon, because Hamas and Hezbollah are in cahoots and are handled by Iran, Fatah and Hamas have a revolving door, and the PA is a joke as it always has been, not to mention being synonymous with Fatah. The best we can do is run interference with the UN and keep collaborating with Israel on military technology (which is what our "aid" really is, as opposed to the pay-offs to Egypt, which are money down the drain), hope the Israeli government comes to its senses, and wait it out. Oh, and neutralize Iran somehow, hopefully without bloodshed.

A real staunch Zionist (which Obama is not, come on!) and someone who is not a babe in the Middle East woods, would understand the above, distance himself from Farrakhan and his ilk without being asked, know enough about the region to not send Zbignew Brzezinski to Damascus, or offer unconditional talks with Iran and Cuba, or be embarrassingly ignorant of military logistics and what we are actually doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Your article is an example of the age problem. Like the other commenter said, some of us have been round on this carousel before.

You want to show us how much history you know. But this is not about Blacks and Jews in 1962, and if you try to make it be about that, you nicely draw attention away from substantive concerns NOW about whether Obama understands what's waiting for him out there. He doesn't and he won't, because it contradicts his basic worldview and that of his base.