Guess Obama can't see or refuses to see that this applies to Israel. I still do not fully understand the ties to Israel that our heads of nation have.
Israel destabilizes the Middle East, attacks and divides the Arab people, disrupts the formation of a secular pan-Arab nationalism of the kind that Nasser and others represented in embryo, provides a convenient external enemy to divert attention from domestic problems in the region, keeps the despotic pro-U.S. tyrants in power (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf states, etc. etc.) - and ensures an uninterrupted flow of oil to the White Christian Fathers. Occasionally, where the system breaks down (e.g. Iraq), direct intervention by the Fathers is required, but often enough (Lebanon, Iran, also Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and the disinherited Palestinians), Israeli military might or merely the threat of its use suffices to keep the natives in check.
No, it's not love of Jews, or evangelical Christianity, or the "Jewish lobby", or any of the other pretexts for covering up pure imperial aims - no more than it was when the Ottomans and then the British and French ran roughshod over the region. It is selfish imperial greed, and no number of cadavers is too many to slake the thirst of the beast.