Despite the pretzel twists from the media defending President Obama, and spinning the issue back on Israel, the facts are Obama’s policies created this crisis.   Specifically the Palestinians say themselves the 2010 Obama Speech is what inspired their U.N. Statehood Bid.

(JPost) — The Palestinian Authority on Saturday warned the US against using its Security Council veto to thwart its plan to seek UN membership for a Palestinian state this week.  A US veto would “destroy” the two-state solution, the PA said.
The warning came after PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced in a speech in Ramallah that he would ask the UN Security Council to accept membership of a Palestinian state.  Erekat hinted that the Palestinians would consider dismantling the PA if the US thwarted their statehood bid.

Zakariya al-Agha, the PLO’s top representative in the Gaza Strip, also warned against the consequences of a US veto.
The PA was going to the UN because US President Barack Obama, in his speech to the UN in September 2010, talked about the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state within one year, Agha said. (read full article)
The administration has ducked leadership on the Israel / Palestinian issue since President Obama came into office.   Trying to insure they do not support Israel, nor being perceived as supporting the Hamas driven PLO.    However, when President Obama has engaged in speeches and announcements he specifically has clouded the water trying to provide each side with supportive frameworks.   Hence the insufferable obfuscation and seemingly unintelligible positioning.   Quite typically Obama.
• July 2009: Mr. Obama hosted American Jewish leaders at the White House, reportedly telling them that he sought to put “daylight” between America and Israel. “For eight years”—during the Bush administration—”there was no light between the United States and Israel, and nothing got accomplished,” he declared.
• September 2009: In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama devoted five paragraphs to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during which he declared (to loud applause) that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” He went on to draw a connection between rocket attacks on Israeli civilians with living conditions in Gaza. There was not a single unconditional criticism of Palestinian terrorism.
• March 2010: During Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, a Jerusalem municipal office announced plans for new construction in a part of Jerusalem. The president launched an unprecedented weeks-long offensive against Israel. Mr. Biden very publicly departed Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a now-infamous 45-minute phone call, telling him that Israel had “harmed the bilateral relationship.” (The State Department triumphantly shared details of the call with the press.) The Israeli ambassador was dressed-down at the State Department, Mr. Obama’s Middle East envoy canceled his trip to Israel, and the U.S. joined the European condemnation of Israel.
Moments after Mr. Biden concluded his visit to the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority held a ceremony to honor Dalal Mughrabi, who led one of the deadliest Palestinian terror attacks in history: the so-called Coastal Road Massacre that killed 38, including 13 children and an American. The Obama administration was silent. But that same day, on ABC, Mr. Axelrod called Israel’s planned construction of apartments in its own capital an “insult” and an “affront” to the United States. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs went on Fox News to accuse Mr. Netanyahu of “weakening trust” between the two countries.
Ten days later, Mr. Netanyahu traveled to Washington to mend fences but was snubbed at a White House meeting with President Obama—no photo op, no joint statement, and he was sent out through a side door.
• April 2010: Mr. Netanyahu pulled out of the Obama-sponsored Washington summit on nuclear proliferation after it became clear that Turkey and Egypt intended to use the occasion to condemn the Israeli nuclear program, and Mr. Obama would not intervene.
• March 2011: Mr. Obama returned to his habit of urging Israelis to engage in self-reflection, inviting Jewish community leaders to the White House and instructing them to “search your souls” about Israel’s dedication to peace.
• May 2011: The State Department issued a press release declaring that the department’s No. 2 official, James Steinberg, would be visiting “Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank.” In other words, Jerusalem is not part of Israel. Later in the month, only hours before Mr. Netanyahu departed from Israel to Washington, Mr. Obama delivered his Arab Spring speech, which focused on a demand that Israel return to its indefensible pre-1967 borders with land swaps.
Now specifically because the domestic politics of Obama’s back-handed approach toward Israel are lining up to create a bigger hurdle for his re-election bid he is going to veto the security council statehood consideration, or he will suffer historic withdrawal from Jewish Americans.    Indeed, if President Obama does NOT veto the statehood demand the ramifications upon the Democrats from mainstream Israeli’s will be staggering.   So Hillary is working diligently to find a ‘save face’ approach that will provide Abbas something to brag about to his people while he returns home without a successful UN resolution or statehood recognition.
Meanwhile the media goes into full recovery and rehabilitation mode defending Obama from the ire of the Jews.    As witnessed by this recent magazine article.