Jimmy Carter: “I hope that in this year 5741 [Jewish New Year] you'll help me be reelected President again.”

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

I don't think the administration has ever picked up the ball, much less dropped it.