It’s a “skinniest kid in fat camp” situation. Obama was sympathetic relative to the other presidents, but woefully inadequate in the abstract. Like, he didn’t want liberation, he wanted conditions in the open air prison just nice enough to not generate the occasional unpleasant headline.

I think the claim of sympathy was that there was a report by one of his staffers that said he was kind of shocked at how the West Bank was being eroded away by the Israelis