Fascinating long-read about Trump's Middle East policy & Israel's ties with the UAE and Saudi Arabia
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
The piece, like many others based (in part) on former Obama admin officials presents Trump's policy as a significant break from the past. Current policy is markedly worse, but Obama's realization that Netanyahu doesn't want peace did not translate into policy
Obama admin officials would speak derisively about Netanyahu behind closed doors, but they didn't do much in their time in office to advance Palestinian rights, for example, by presenting a peace plan, UNSC resolutions or even diplomatic sanctions due to human rights abuses.
While Obama's team did not help further Palestinian rights, it at least tried to prevent (at times successfully) things from getting worse. Those days are gone. Anyone who cares about human rights should be incredibly concerned about this. 
U.S. behind-the-scenes interventions & public condemnations have prevented/constrained multiple Israeli human rights abuses, not just those of Palestinian rights. I'm saying this based on a decade+ of experience in Israeli human rights NGOs.
