Chicago, U.S.U.S. President Barack Obama is going out with a bang, angering Israel and antagonizing incoming Donald Trump with a political tweet.He has angered Israel, shocking the Benjamin Netanyahu administration by allowing the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution forbidding Israel from erecting Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands. Obama instructed his U.N. representative to abstain during the voting thus refusing to block it with the traditional American veto.Israel is now hopping mad. The Netanyahu government has suspended ties with all governments whose representatives voted in favor of the resolution at the U.N. pro-Israeli lobbies and U.S. congressmen close to the Jewish state are accusing Obama of staging a coup on the way out.Obama is being accused of taking revenge on Netanyahu for defying him and visiting Washington to appear before Congress during the Israeli elections campaign. He has been at odds with the Israeli prime minister for the past four years.Yet, like every other American president Obama has turned a blind eye to Netanyahu's defiant and destructive policies aimed at courting Israel's right-wing voters to remain in power despite the fact that a recent poll published by the CBS in the U.S. shows two-thirds of Israelis do not approve of the policy of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.So in essence Obama is seeking some form of international forgiveness for supporting Netanyahu's aggressive policies while he also takes some political revenge from the Israeli prime minister for their cool relationship.However, antagonizing Netanyahu at this stage is far from productive. Israeli defiance will be backed by the U.S. Congress and by the incoming Donald Trump, which will further strengthen the hand of the Israeli government to disregard the U.N. resolution. The U.S. will see to it that Israeli defiance will not cost them at the U.N. Security Council. So this will also be counterproductive for the Palestinians and will make life more difficult for Turkey, which is forging a fine balance between its relations with the Jewish state and its active and effective support for the Palestinians.Meanwhile Obama also irked Trump on Dec. 26 when he tweeted declaring he would have won the U.S. presidential elections if he had been the Democratic candidate instead of Hillary Clinton. Trump retorted by saying that it was not true, which is probably the case. If the elections were held four years ago, Obama would probably have beaten Trump with a comfortable margin. Yet the 2016 presidential elections showed that the American people are not satisfied with the domestic policies of the Democrats and thus handed them a defeat not only at the White House but also in Congress. If Obama had been given the opportunity to run for a third term he may have been beaten by Trump in November probably with a wider margin than Clinton.The Obama administration has committed a massive mistake by extending military support to the militant Syrian Kurds under the umbrella of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) which is an extension of Turkey's PKK terrorist organization. The Syrian Kurds and some of their allies in Washington misled the American administration by giving the impression that the PYD would use its fighting force against the Daesh terrorist outfit. The PYD used its military aid to expand its area of control in northern Syria while pretending to actively fight Daesh. This has now proven a fallacy after the Turkish military entered northern Syria and bashed Daesh effectively with the help of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).If only Obama displayed his remorse in the case of the PYD as he did with Israel.