Long before he was elected, it was clear that the Jewish Right was gunning for Barack Obama. Due diligence was done and the junior senator from Illinois was not so quietly undergoing scrutiny by the political watchdogs of the 
The White House is doing just what they feared it would do.
Jewish nationalist camp, both in Israel and the US. This is how it should be and I voice no criticism here.
Now that Senator Obama has become President Obama, those same watchdogs are howling with consternation that the White House is doing just what they feared it would do. Obama is steering US policy away from the Bush years of benign neglect and towards a track that outwardly appears to cave in completely to the Muslim world-view, without putting a significant price tag on that support.
Barack Obama is not President of the Jews. He is not our national leader. He does not sit in the Knesset; and it is not to be expected that every US president will always do and say the things we, as Israelis, want to hear.
I believe that President Obama is not an enemy of the Jews or Israel, but that he has been surrounded all his life by people who are mostly not supporters of Israel in the traditional sense, and who share a very different world-view of the Middle East conflict. For all his excellent education, street smarts and experience as a community organizer in the ghettos of Chicago, this type of background does not constitute a recipe for the engendering of traditional pro-Israel sentiment.
President Obama is a creation of his milieu, but he is not an anti-Semite. While this will put me at odds with some of my fellow travelers on the Right, I am going to stick by my guns. I am every bit as ideological as the next person, and I am appalled by what I see and hear coming out of the Obama White House as it relates to Israel.
Nonetheless, I maintain that President Obama is no anti-Semite and we do not serve any good cause by claiming otherwise or by harping on his middle name. We should be the last people in the world to ostracize someone by attaching a racist stigma to their name.
Our problem as Zionists is here at home. Our leaders sit here in Jerusalem. At what point did we give up on electing the national leadership that we need? When did we decide that we will make life easier for ourselves by opting out of the Israeli electoral process in preference for trying to get a pro-Israel president into the White House? We live here, the choice we must make is to be made in Israel and not in a distant foreign land.
The Right must roll up its sleeves and do what it most detests. It is time for us to engage the political process here in Israel. It is time to look at the monstrous political catastrophe that we have allowed to develop in Jerusalem, and to deal with it in the most legitimate and direct fashion possible.
It is time to become excellent examples of good citizens by engaging the politicians on their own turf, by joining the political party of our choice regardless of whether of not we agree with everything that party says or does. Does every member of the Democratic or Republican parties in America agree with everything their party of choice says or does? Yet, millions of Americans took an active part in the most recent US elections. This is how it 
The Right must roll up its sleeves and do what it most detests.
should be; this is how democracy functions best.
The Knesset is our national and natural home for decisive political debate, not Washington. When we take our fate back into our hands by taking back the Knesset from those who currently sit within it, only then will we get the kind of government we need. And not by expecting miracles from the tall skinny fellow with the different name who sits in that big white house, so detached from us in every respect.
For me, as a voting Likud member, it is Binyamin Netanyahu and our party who are the decisive factors. They will answer to me for their actions when I vote in the Likud primaries and leadership contests.
I have no connection to the Manhigut Yehudit group in the Likud, but Moshe Feiglin is right on the money when he tells us to join Likud and fight for what we want, within the ruling party, the party of power.