JAMES TARANTO ON OBAMA AND ISRAEL — AND AMERICA: “Obama’s detachment from the Jewish state is of a piece with this evident detachment from his own country. . . . Disesteem for Israel is rare in America, but it is concentrated in certain cultural pockets, the most notable of which is the academic left. Some of our friends on the right imagine that Obama is a secret jihadist or a hater like his erstwhile pastor. To put it charitably, we think this overexplains matters. The trouble with the president is simply that he spent too much time in the faculty lounge.”