Did Obama just come out against a two-state solution?

“What we can’t do is pretend that there’s a possibility for something that’s not there,” Obama said during a news conference. “And we can’t continue to premise our public diplomacy based on something that everybody knows is not going to happen at least in the next several years.”

“For the sake of our own credibility I think we have to be able to be honest about that,” he added.

Whoa — is Obama saying he is against a two state solution? To any non-idiot, the answer is obviously, “of course not.”

And yet, Obama and his administration have initiated a crisis in the U.S.-Israel relationship over a similar statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the recent Israeli election.