As a candidate and now as president, Barack Obama has pledged over and over his "unshakable" commitment to Israel and the security of the Jewish state.
At AIPAC, before the United Nations, to the Muslim world and the American people at large, Obama has talked a big game about sharing an unbreakable bond with the Middle East's sole true democracy and the United States' chief ally in the region.
Yet relations between the two countries have deteriorated under Obama. He has openly criticized Israeli policies and settlements, pushed for a return to 1967 border lines with the Palestinians that Israel called "indefensible," and antagonized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on numerous occasions, most notably with a 2013 nuclear deal struck with the Islamic Republic of Iran that Netanyahu called a "historic mistake."
The Washington Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles also points out the Federal Aviation Administration just extended its ban on U.S. commercial flights to Israel, over the objections of Israeli officials.
There have also been recent embarrassing moments with Secretary of State John Kerry, who worried secretly Israel could become an "apartheid" state if no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was found soon. Kerry was also caught Sunday on a hot mic mocking Israel's claim of conducting a "pinpoint" operation in Gaza as it responds to Hamas aggression.
A rather shaky commitment, to be sure.