Try to be nice to the Palestinian people, and
this is what you get. Israelis have known this for a while--ever since we created the Palestinian Authority and kept offering it statehood, and in return we got suicide bombers and rocket bombardments. (Some of us already understood the picture, before the Palestinian Authority was created.) Now, try getting someone like Obama to understand this--that Israel is a democracy and is not the bad guy in the picture, but, rather, the (if sometimes naive) good guy. I think that even if Obama were to walk into the midst of the anti-Obama riots now occurring in the Palestinian Authority, he still wouldn't get it. It would mean becoming some sort of Netanyahu-like person--the worst horror imaginable.