President Barack Obama may think he’s on the right path towards accomplishing a Middle East peace, but it appears the president has underestimated the feelings on the subject by Jewish youth and others. There already appears to be a Barack Lash, a backlash to the American president and his new misguided Middle East policy.

Filmmaker Max Blumenthal took to the streets of Jerusalem the night prior to Obama’s Cairo speech. Perhaps expecting the same old Obama Kool-Aid from the youthful crowd, which included some young Israeli’s and many American-Jewish kids, the filmmakers discovered an unexpected vitriol toward the newly-elected TOTUS (so named after Egyptians began calling Barack Obama The New Tutankhamen of the World) not dissimilar to the angry rants against Jews often heard from Palestinian youth.

“What do you think of Obama and Israel?” the filmmaker asked the youth. He got answers like “He’s a f**khead…He’s a Muslim for sure and who knows if he was born in the United States...You’re all about talking to the Arabs. What about us Jews, what, are we chopped liver? You don’t care about us…I think Obama is an idiot…F**k Obama, he’s an asshole…My grandmother was in Auschwitz, Obama. We’re not going to take any Nazi bullshit. Listen man, my grandmothers number was 1268493. I remember her number on her arm, dude. And listen, never again will we deal with this, never again.”

The Barack lash isn’t just emanating from the youth. A new campaign initiated by Israel’s Jewish religious right is posting signs throughout the tiny country stating “Yes, We Can,” with the figures of President Obama and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad smiling at one another as they shake hands, a nuclear blast in the background. Obama, in his speech, said Iran has the right to pursue nuclear energy.

Even in the United States, Congressional members are beginning to voice their concerns about Obama’s slanted Middle-East policy, saying that their constituents are expressing their serious concerns that TOTUS is starting to sound decidedly pro-Palestinian Arab.

At the West Bank outpost named Oz Yehonatan, settlers built a wooden structure they mockingly called the "Obama Hut," saying it was a sign of appreciation for the US president for his actions that had led to a dramatic rise in the number of outposts.

All this boiling rage toward the new American president is understandable. It is not just his break with prior American policy that has many members of the Jewish community up-in-arms. But it is Obama’s apparent breach of promise made to American Jews that has them incensed. As a candidate, Mr. Obama assured the members of AIPAC, the influential Israeli lobby that he was and would govern as a friend of Israel if he was elected president of the United States.

President Obama has done anything but. Instead, it appears that TOTUS has embarked on a path certain to destroy the relations between the White House and the worldwide Jewish community. The American President’s new close friends appear to be Arab leaders, the tyrannical Hamas, their cousins Hezbollah, the Palestinians and their leaders who since 1947 have consistently embraced hate over love. Their first misguided choice was to reject peaceful co-existence with the poor besotted Jews who had no place to go when the world rejected them at the end of the Nazi reign of terror, including the great United States of America. Instead the “Palestinians” chose war over peaceful co-existence.

Although TOTUS continues to call himself a “friend” of Israel, and reiterated his familiar refrain “there will always be a special bond between Israel and the United States,” in his Cairo speech, he said this even as he humiliated the Jews before the world. He erroneously blamed Israel for the plight of the Palestinians. And, what’s more, dared to dictate to a sovereign nation what he expected them to do, dismantle the West Bank settlements.

Since becoming President, Obama hasn’t missed an opportunity to spank Israel, wrongfully accusing the country of having broken earlier agreements to stop building settlements in the West Bank. He ignored protocol in meeting first with an Arab leader, Jordanian President King Abdullah, before receiving the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Where previous American presidents have always given Israel a heads up on the content of their speeches, the Obama administration honors no such protocol.

Then, in his Cairo speech, TOTUS soundly used the word “occupation,” in the same sentence as Israel. And again, before the Arab world, Obama put the pressure on Israel to halt settlement activity on the land won by Israel in the ’67 war now referred to as The West Bank, the SECOND state Obama would like to give the Palestinians, the first, of course, being Gaza.

Perhaps Obama should have stopped first in Germany at the Nazi Jewish extermination camp Buchenwald, before he made his speech to the Muslim world rather than doing the reverse.

The Buchenwald backdrop proved a stark reminder to all not to forget from whence Israel was borne -- out of the very worst of human behavior.

Friday, President Obama took the tour of the concentration camp with Nobel laureate and camp survivor Elie Wiesel along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following Obama’s rebuke of the Israeli’s just the day before, it seemed disingenuous for the president to stand with Elie Wiesel at Buchenwald, where Wiesel, as a young Jewish boy, was a prisoner of the Nazi’s, and where he was forced to helplessly watch his father die in agony before his very starving eyes.

In size, Elie Wiesel is half that of President Obama. In stature he dwarfed the nubile president by a mile. “Memories must bring people together not set them apart;” Elie Wiesel said, "memory not to sow anger in our hearts, but to the contrary, a sense of solidarity with all those who need us."

Words of wisdom from a survivor to a president whose goal seems to separate the Muslims from the Jews, the Palestinians from the Israeli’s, to pit one against the other rather than to create a world of solidarity such as his own United States, where despite differences, America’s citizens, notoriously an amalgam of humanity, co-exist in peace.

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