The "Western" - especially US and Israeli - media have been for basically years full of stories how Obama should have "romanced" the Israeli public before making any criticism of settlement building and today we have these same stories again, how Obama should praise Israel to high heaven just for getting on his side the people who just voted Naftali Bennett into government and gave Benyamin Netanyahu an extension in power.

Have you noticed how there are no stories whatsoever, even from the most "liberal" of Western media, how Obama should take the same path with the Palestinian public?

Notice how it is taken granted by even those who mildly criticize Israel's activities in the media that the Palestinian public should have no say whatsoever in their own future and the future of the land? That their role is not to influence, but to stand in the sidelines...