Only 4 percent of Israelis believe President Obama is pro-Israel according to a poll done last week by the Jerusalem Post. (The poll’s margin of error was larger than that at 4.5 percent.) Part of the reason Obama might be having trouble convincing even a few Israelis that he is a true friend is reporting like this, from Haaretz, on the victory of opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama in Japan’s elections this weekend: