All the rest of the show is aimed at Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners and, perhaps, some American right-wing supporters of Israel, including some Jews and some evangelical Christians. Mr. Troy fails to pick up on the fact that President Obama did not propose an Israeli withdrawal to the ’67 borders, and further fails to recognize the very clear statement that President Obama made to the Palestinian Authority: no statehood without recognizing Israel and agreeing to borders which Israel deems defensible. Mr. Netanyahu has played down that portion of the President’s comments, probably for the purpose of pressuring his right-wing coalition partners to stay with him. If anyone needs some schooling, Hebrew or otherwise, it is Mr. Troy, who cannot see that the US president is standing with the State of Israel as surely as any of his presidential predecessors.

Commenter No. 1: I did not see Vice President Biden’s alleged applause malfunction, but I feel no need to read anything into it when his boss, the President, has made his position so clear with words. Perhaps if you paid more attention to the words, and less to the applause, you might begin to understand what is going on between Israel and the US. Alternatively, perhaps you are focused on the ambiguity of Mr. Biden’s conduct because the words of his boss are so clear, and so contrary to your preconceived notion that Mr. Obama is Israel’s foe, that you latch on to an ambiguous source of information – Biden’s applause or lack of applause – because it gives you more room to misinterpret things in a way that is consistent with your factless political analysis.