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One of New York City's most famous and influential Jews, former mayor Ed Koch, longtime Democrat -- and longtime mayor (he governed New York for eleven years) -- is showing distinct signs of buyer's remorse. And anecdotal evidence gathered by him -- and me in my sojourns around New York and New Jersey -- suggest that Hiz Honor's emotional trajectory is fairly representative of a growing disenchantment among Jews who voted for Obama. The "falling out of love," the term Mayor Koch used... has been gradual. First there was the handling of the health care bill. Then the President's failure to extract quid pro quos from Russia and China, then the "underwear bomber" affair. But it was Obama's recent treatment of Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House (refusing to allow photographs, sequestering the world leader in a room and then leaving him there while he went to have dinner with his family with the instruction "call me if anything changes") that seems to have pushed the rambunctious former mayor over a kind of edge.