spills over into foreign policy.

In the weeks after the UN vote, Obama said privately and repeatedly, “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” With each new settlement announcement, in Obama’s view, Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation.
Irrespective of one's views on the Israeli-Palestinian religious conflict, Obama's comments only serve to exemplify the illness of the 'government knows better for you than you know for yourself' fascist arrogance and ignorance. That the current domestic regime, operating from a position of vapid ignorance in regarding the conflict as secular with secular solutions, has its lead member repeatedly exhibit such a manifestation of the government first control-freak fascist illness, is merely par for the course. One would think that someone might have learned about the 'private' nature of things with the 'foreigners will not tolerate' speechifying...