President Obama started a Facebook page today, and we can guess who his first friend is. His statement this morning before his meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was certainly one-sided. Not a word about Israeli settlements. Remember when he used to speak about occupation? Another time, another country. And notice that all the violence is Palestinian. “Palestinian violence against its and Israeli citizens.”

Though the U.S. wants to “make sure that legitimate Palestinian aspirations are met through a political process.” Legitimate Palestinian aspirations. That would seem to mean: rights. But he can’t say so.

Because: “There’s no foreign leader who I’ve met with more frequently.” Translation: I don’t want to see this guy, but I have to because of the political pressure of the Israel lobby. And as for that pesky Iran deal that Netanyahu tried to destroy– just a fart in the wind! “A strong disagreement on this narrow issue,” Obama said.

Excerpts of Obama statement:

Well, it is very good to welcome once again Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to the Oval Office. There’s no foreign leader who I’ve met with more frequently, and I think that’s a testimony to the extraordinary bond between the United States and Israel…. This is going to be an opportunity for the Prime Minister and myself to engage in a wide-ranging discussion on some of the most pressing security issues that both our countries face. It’s no secret that the security environment in the Middle East has deteriorated in many areas. And as I’ve said repeatedly, the security of Israel is one of my top foreign policy priorities. And that has expressed itself not only in words, but in deeds. We have closer military and intelligence cooperation than any two administrations in history. The military assistance that we provide we consider not only an important part of our obligation to the security of the state of Israel, but also an important part of U.S. security infrastructure in the region, as we make sure that one of our closest allies cannot only protect itself but can also work with us in deterring terrorism and other security threats. In light of what continues to be a chaotic situation in Syria, this will give us an opportunity to discuss what’s happening there. We’ll have an opportunity to discuss how we can blunt the activities of ISIL, Hezbollah and other organizations in the region that carry out terrorist attacks. A lot of our time will be spent on a memorandum of understanding that we can potentially negotiate. It will be expiring in a couple of years, but we want to get a head start on that to make sure that both the United States and Israel can plan effectively for our defense needs going forward. We’ll also have a chance to talk about how implementation of the Iran nuclear agreement is going. It’s no secret that the Prime Minister and I have had a strong disagreement on this narrow issue, but we don’t have a disagreement on the need to making sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, and we don’t have a disagreement about the importance of us blunting and destabilizing activities that Iran may be taking place. And so we’re going to be looking to make sure that we find common ground there. And we will also have an opportunity to discuss some of the concerns that both of us have around violence in the Palestinian Territories. I want to be very clear that we condemn in the strongest terms Palestinian violence against its and Israeli citizens. And I want to repeat once again, it is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right, but the obligation to protect itself. I also will discuss with the Prime Minister his thoughts on how we can lower the temperature between Israelis and Palestinians, how we can get back on a path towards peace, and how we can make sure that legitimate Palestinian aspirations are met through a political process, even as we make sure that Israel is able to secure itself. And so this is going to be a lot of work to do, with too little time, which is why I will stop here and just once again say, welcome.

Netanyahu’s statement includes his lip service to a “demilitarized” Palestinian state that “recognizes the Jewish state.” This is the new demand, now etched in stone, which Palestinians will never accede to, didn’t accede to when they recognized Israel a quarter of a century ago.

Almost his entire statement was about the savagery of ISIS and the terror and turbulence thoughout the Middle East. Here are the Palestinian bits: