Something is seriously wrong. At almost every opportunity, Obama and his minions have criticized Israel out of all proportion to the actions of the Jewish state, particularly during the recent Gaza War when there was a constant barrage of warnings from our State Department about harming civilians. (This is a criticism State would never turn on itself. Who knows how many innocents have died in the U.S. air attacks on ISIS -- no one even says a word about it.)

Now they have called Israel's prime minister a 'chickensh*t,' a 'coward' and who knows what else, using adjectives for Benjamin Netanyahu they don't employ with Kim Jung-un, Vladimir Putin, Hassan Nasrallah, Bashar Assad or even the murderous Islamic State's al-Baghdadi, not to mention -- and this is probably crucial -- the potentially most homicidal of all, Ayatollah Khamenei of the Islamic State of Iran. (One of the more sinister aspects of Jeff Goldberg's article that generated this controversy was that one of his leakers bragged they had scared cowardly Netanyahu into not attacking Iran's nuclear installations, as if this were a good thing, the implication being that the administration can now look good for making an Iran deal -- that would ultimately give the mullahs the bomb.) It's as if Netanyahu, not the aforementioned maniacs, were the administration's worst enemy.

Meanwhile, the attempts to make nice to the Israelis over the vicious personal slurs from the article, which apparently came from two high and thus far unpunished administration officials, have been perfunctory, so perfunctory that you know they are not meant to be taken seriously, quite the contrary. In fact, an attempted terrorist assassination of a prominent American-Israeli in Jerusalem yesterday that caused the Israeli government to put the Temple Mount on lockdown has already generated more chastisement of the Israelis from our secretary of State. All this against an unprecedented, at least since World War II, rise in global anti-Semitism.

The administration claims to be making these 'constructive' criticisms for Israel's sake, but the Jewish state has better allies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia than they do in an Obama administration that seems to prefer Islamofascist Qatar -- those same oil sheikhs that bankroll Hamas, the terror organization whose charter exhorts all Muslims to kill every Jew hiding behind a tree anywhere in the world.

And you wonder why I feel like I'm living in Berlin in 1937.