I'm not quite sure what to make of the plea from Israeli commentators for President Obama's attention, but it has occurred to me that, given the geopolitical priorities of the moment, it might not be all that upsetting to members of the National Security Council -- or to President Obama -- that Israelis perceive that the President is giving them the short end of the stick -- and that Israel is vocally complaining about the slight via the public protests.
My best of sense of Obama's instincts suggests that he has come to believe that the way to break out of the status quo on the Middle East is to change policy only slightly -- that's the pressure to freeze settlements -- but to change perception significantly -- which involves a buy-in from the Arab world, which itself is predicated on the fabled and over broadly characterized "Arab Street" having been convinced that America is truly more neutral than it has seemed.
To be sure -- Obama remains strongly pro-Israel. It's just that this perception imbalance was doing harm to American interests and was serving as an excuse for Arab and Middle Eastern governments to dawdle or gain leverage on important questions involving Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq.