After three years of criticizing President Barack Obama’s anti-Israel policies, former Mayor Ed Koch has once again decided to be an advocate for Obama in the Jewish community–without any clear changes in Obama’s positions.

This is not Koch’s first such reversal. In May 2008 during Democratic Party primary season, Koch publically announced that he was worried that Barack Obama would not be a friend to Israel:

“Hillary recently attempted to warn Iran that were it to launch nuclear weapons against Israel, the U.S. “would be able to totally obliterate them.” Hillary’s comments were totally in keeping with the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction which kept the Soviet Union at bay during the Cold War when it threatened its European neighbors and members of NATO.

Instead of joining Hillary in a similar warning to Iran, Senator Obama on “Meet the Press” criticized Hillary stating, “it’s language reflective of George Bush…This kind of language is not helpful.”

Koch concluded:

“We now know just how far Senator Obama is prepared to go to defend our friends and allies. It is not far enough.”

Just four months later in September 2008 Koch endorsed Barack Obama even though he didn’t change his positions.

Koch followed up his endorsement by campaigning in heavily Jewish state. He successfully convinced American Jews that Israel should not be an issue in the campaign because Obama and McCain were equal in their support of Israel.

Once Obama was elected and proved to be horrible for America and Israel, Ed Koch became a leading critic of the POTUS and his anti-Israel policies. In March 2010 he wrote a commentary for the progressive Huffington Post called “Never Again Should We Be Silent“:

“ Now, in my opinion, based on the actions and statements by President Obama and members of his administration, there is grave doubt among supporters of Israel that President Obama can be counted on to do what presidents before him did – protect our ally, Israel. The Arabs can lose countless wars and still come back because of their numbers. If Israel were to lose one, it would cease to exist.”

In April 2010 Koch doubled down on criticizing Obama’s Middle East policies, telling Neil Cavuto on Fox News;