Everyone was expecting an Obama stab in the back. But the stab was more likely to happen if Hillary had won. Obama's jabs at Israel are petty and impotent because anything he does can be reversed and will lack stature. On the other hand, he could have done the dirty work for Hillary that she wasn't ready to do to save her from undertaking the political risks.
So all that's left is the passive aggressive gambit.
The United States intended to allow the U.N. Security Council to approve a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, two Western officials said on Thursday, a major reversal of U.S. practice, which prompted Israel to ask President-elect Donald Trump to apply pressure.
In a day of intense diplomatic wrangling on one of the thorniest Middle East conflicts, Egypt, which had proposed the draft resolution, abruptly put off a vote that had been scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Diplomats said Cairo had acted under pressure from Israel and to avoid alienating Trump, who spoke to the Egyptian president and urged the White House to use its veto.
Egypt expects closer ties with Trump and sees no reason to join what had become an Obama effort to undermine him. Paradoxically, Obama may have unintentionally undone the resolution.