Obama - a question

I recently listened to Barak Obama's speech on race and racism in America. I was once again captivated and inspired... yet there is one line in there that urked me. In the first third of his speech, Obama was commenting on the controversial statements made by his former paster...

"But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."

My acquisition of historical knowledge and current political climates is admittedly limited to that a U.S. citizen, small-town-country-girl, who rarely watches TV news, or reads a newspaper. Even so I do have strong opinion on this issue, and I tend to blame Israel (and its allies) for a good portion of current conflicts in the Middle East. I am attempting to decipher Obama's stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict/occupation. From what I hear and read he has recently been a quite outspoken in his support of Israel...

So, as bright and aware people of the world, what is our opinion on Obama's climbing into bed with AIPAC? Does his worldliness and charisma make up for it? Is he so great that one can just overlook this great flaw? As long as we have health care and peaceful race relations at home... it won't matter that we continue to monetarily and militarily support genocide and apartheid in the Promised Land?