Given the total focus the global media has on Israeli misdeeds, I have little doubt that we'll hear of every significant change in this vein, so if public scandals are what needed, they'll happen.
It's really more than I think Netanyahu is a savvy politician who knows that Obama is looking for anything to make it politically acceptable for him to drop the hammer on Israel.
This is a common misconception among my fellow-tribesmen: the world does not really care much about Israe. The "global media", whatever it is, very rarely pays much attention to Israel. And, most definitely, it pays very little attention to Palestinians. An occasional scandal gets noticed, but little otherwise.
I love to make a quick article count to illustrate the point. I have in my hands Reforma - leading newspaper for Mexico´s middle class. Today´s international page has 4 news about the US, plus another about the US-Cuban relations, one item about a Chinese investment project in Brazil, and one each about Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia. Ok, this was before the Israeli segregation news - sure, it will be there as well tomorrow.
So, I am logging up on elpais.com, international section. As every newspaper site it has all the news from the last few days. Yes, the Israeli bus story is there. The other international news are (including the blogs)
Syria (2 items),
Osama bin Laden (2 items)
Malaysia/Indonesia/Myanmar/refugees (3 items)
Refugees in Europe (1 item)
Cuba/US (2 items)
Cuba alone (1 item)
Portugal (1 item)
Venezuela/US (1 item)
Colombia/US (1 item)
Colombia alone (1 item)
Guatemala (2 items)
US/Middle East (but no Israel) (1 item)
Middle East alone (ISIS, really, with some excursion all the way into Ottoman Empire) (1 item)
Mexico (3 items)
US alone (2 items)
France (2 items)
India (1 item)
UK (1 item)
Italy/North Africa (1 item)
Egypt (no reference to Israel) (1 item)
Ex-USSR/Cuba/Spain (1 item about some exhibit in Moscow)
Oman (1 item)
There are more stories if one goes into the regional subdivisions, but that is the front page - except for Israel. What about Israel? Well, there is a fresh news about the buses at the very top, and that gave the reason to link two stories from the Mideast section about the FIFA thing (including one about the "peace match"). That's it. That is the European Left obscession with Israel.
Ah, and what about the mideast section? May be, at least that is Israel-obscessed? These are the articles for the last few days
US/Mideast (1 item)
Egypt (no Israel) (4 items)
Syria (4 items)
Syria/Spain (2 items)
Refugees into Europe (1 item)
Iran (no Israel) (2 items)
Israel/Palestine (3 items - same as before, 2 about football)
Turkey (1 item)
Saudi Arabia/Spain (1 item)
Qatar (1 item)
Iraq (3 items)
Yemen (3 items)
ISIS in general (1 item)
Vatican/Palestine (1 item)
Yes, they are all Israel-obsessed here.
