Barack Obama, the new Chamberlain

An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress. He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.

Soon after, the Washington Post hit the story hard and broadcast the Times’ rejection of the hitherto Obama narrative.

Funding must be very tight at Fairfax. After all, O’Malley seemingly didn’t have the couple of bucks to buy and read those two newspapers, both highly respected by the far-left-of-centre set. Or did he, like many in Team Obama, not want the fact to interdict his bias? I guess we’ll never know.

Let’s not forget that the NYT corrected its false reporting over a month before O’Malley’s story was posted. Hmm.

Such misreporting only deceives readers that the state of the relationship between the United States and Israel, its only reliable ally in the ugliest corner of the world, which granted, is in bad or even terrible shape, is all Netanyahu’s fault.

The deception has worked. Wonderfully. It has distracted the world from Obama’s menu of concessions to the mullahs on the nuclear issue.

Unfortunately however for the Obama boosters, an examination of the facts reveals the toxicity of the relationship between the US and Israel was caused by actions other than Netanyahu’s eagerness to speak up about the New Chamberlain’s drift to appeasement of Iran’s mullahs.

The evidence has the former community organiser’s grubby fingerprints all over it.

It is Obama who has upended what has been for many decades US Middle East Arab policy, promising early on to put distance between Washington and Jerusalem.

He believed that peace has not dawned in the region because the U.S. and Israel were far too close, especially under George W. Bush.

And put distance he did.

Arguing over development applications for houses in Jerusalem ballooned into oceans of animosity between the two nations. No other US president has been so unfavorably disposed towards Israel’s housing construction.