OBAMA BACKS AWAY FROM PLEDGE FOR AN “UNDIVIDED” JERUSALEM: Calls his own AIPAC speech a “mistake”

Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem this morning, before leaving Israel for Germany. It was another good photo op for the junior Senator from Illinois. Nevertheless, many in Israel are feeling stunned by the Senator’s statements in recent days backing away from a pledge he made in June supporting an “undivided” Jerusalem. Last night on ABC News, the Senator actually called his clear and powerful defense of Jerusalem — delivered just last month at a conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — a “mistake.”

Consider the following string of statements: ....