I am a great admirer of Mr. Netanyahu and look forward to his visit. He is a true leader and statesman, and he makes President Limpwrist look like a petulant schoolboy in comparison.
Another reason leftists hate Israel is that the Jews there are uppity enough to dare defend themselves against the HAMAS jihadists who govern Gaza. HAMAS, as its charter openly states, is the wing of the Muslim Brotherhood of Palestine and is dedicated to killing Jews. Leftists share Muslim jihadists' loathing of the United States, even though millions of them choose to take up space here. That loathing gives them common cause, and it explains why leftists are constantly running this country down while making excuses for its Islamist enemies. Andy McCarthy documented this unholy alliance in a very fine book, "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America."
It's no accident that one of B. Hussein Obama's best friends in Chicago was the leftist professor Rashid Khalidi, who was a great admirer of the Jew-hating degenerate Yasser Arafat and a PLO propagandist. No accident, either, that the Liar-in-Chief's preacher of twenty years, Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright, is a close friend of the Jew-hating Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan. It's completely predictable that Obama would pretend that hatred of Jews had nothing to do with why the jihadists in France chose to murder the customers of a Kosher market. I suppose he also thinks the Muslim jihadists who carried out terrorist murders in Bombay some years ago just happened to choose to carry out several of them at a Jewish center.