Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens nails President Obama to the wall in his column: An Anti-Israel President.  Stephens writes about the Obama doctrine: insult and punish friends, reward adversaries and enemies.  His latest target, Israel (a frequent punching-bag for him). Obama articulated a policy with either no warning or very little warning to our allies, the Israelis, that would adopt the Palestinian policy requiring Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines (with agreed land swaps) and make it the American policy. Of course, Barack Obama has a penchant of doing this to individual Republicans (he has insulted Paul Ryan to his face, and Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock as well) but now he does it to an entire nation.

Say what you will about President Obama's approach to Israel -- or of his relationship with American Jews -- he sure has mastered the concept of chutzpah.

On Thursday at the State Department, the president gave his big speech on the Middle East, in which he invoked the claims of friendship to tell Israelis "the truth," which to his mind was that "the status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace." On Friday in the Oval Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his version of the truth, which was that the 1967 border proposed by Mr. Obama as a basis for negotiating the outlines of a Palestinian state was a nonstarter.

Administration reaction to this reciprocal act of friendly truth-telling? "That was Bibi over the top," the New York Times quoted one senior U.S. official, using the prime minister's nickname. "That's not how you address the president of the United States."

Maybe so. Then again, it isn't often that this or any other U.S. president welcomes a foreign leader by sandbagging him with an adversarial policy speech a day before the visit.

What Mr. Obama offered is a formula for war, one that he will pursue in a second term. Assuming, of course, that he gets one.