David here,
Well it seems that the failing shambles that is the lame duck Obama Administration (see this Telegraph article) in the persona of Secretary of State John Kerry, is upsetting even the uber liberal Israeli Haartez newspaper or at least one of its correspondents who writes :
Kerry isn’t anti-Israeli; on the contrary, he's a true friend to Israel. But his conduct in recent days over the Gaza cease-fire raises serious doubts over his judgment and perception of regional events. It's as if he isn't the foreign minister of the world's most powerful nation, but an alien, who just disembarked his spaceship in the Mideast. For a few moments Friday one could not avoid recalling the things Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said about Kerry, and admit that despite the fact that it wasn't appropriate, he may have had a point.Ouch.
But some clearly already have sensed Kerry's other worldliness:
