The photograph which depicts Obama's shoe-soles in the White House's Oval Office, while he is 'dictating' orders on to Netanyahu over the phone, read the Israeli papers, according to Huffington Post.
They went on to ridicule Obama's recent speech in Egypt, in which he had, for the first time, referred to a 'Palestinian State' rather than Palestinians as people.
"Listen up and write 'Palestinian State' a hundred times. That's right, Palestine, with a P," an Israeli news outlet interpreted Obama's picture as denoting.
So far, there has been no reaction from the US administration officials on the alleged offensiveness of the photo. It could not independently be confirmed that the photo was shot while Obama was on the phone with Netanyahu.
Israeli media have criticized Obama's approach to the Middle East.
Israeli newscasters see the incident as rather analogous to an episode last year, when the Iraqi reporter, Muntadher al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at the then US president Bush in Baghdad during his farewell press conference.
