Here’s an excerpt:

. ... When this president wants to make a show of his exquisite diplomatic sensitivity—burgers with Medvedev, bows to Abdullah, New Year's greetings to the mullahs—he knows how. And when he wants to show his contempt, he knows how, too.

The contempt was again on display Sunday, when Mr. Obama spoke to the Aipac policy conference in Washington. The speech was stocked with the perennial bromides about U.S.-Israeli friendship, which brought an anxious crowd to its feet a few times. As for the rest, it was a thin tissue of falsehoods, rhetorical legerdemain, telling omissions and self-contradictions. Let's count the ways.

For starters, it would be nice if the president could come clean about whether his line about the 1967 line—"mutually agreed swaps" and all—was pathbreaking and controversial, or no big deal … .

Read Stephens’ column here.

On Friday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Obama in Washington a day after the U.S. president delivered a speech outlining a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinian Authority based on 1967 lines.

Netanyahu rejected Obama's plan, citing Israeli security and demographic concerns. Netanyahu’s aides have also pointed out the 1967 lines are not part of an agreed border but designated by Jordanian and Israeli fighters when a ceasefire was called in 1949 to end an earlier war.