Barack Obama with Binyamin Netanyahu (left) and Mahmoud Abbas (right) in New York in September. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesObama Fails To Resuscitate The Middle East Peace Process -- The Guardian
Obituaries for the hope generated by his election are being written in Arabic, Hebrew and English
Barack Obama seems to have failed dismally in his first sustained attempt to show he is serious about making peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Obituaries for the hope generated by his election, peaking in his Cairo speech in June, are being written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. For those who never believed that even Obama could succeed where Bill Clinton failed in the final days of his presidency, this was a death foretold.
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More News On The Middle East Process
Obama's Middle East Strategy Stalls -- Voice of America
Mideast turns a new shade of bleak -- Toronto Star
Quitting Mideast talks may be best US policy: experts -- AFP
Netanyahu told Obama: Peace talks must yield deal -- Haaretz
In Paris, Benjamin Netanyahu finds growing European doubt on Middle East peace -- Christian Science Monitor
Obama and Netanyahu's 70 minute one-on-one, and dumping "unprecedented" -- Politico
My Comment: Palestinian President Abbas only represents the West Bank, and has no impact on whether Hamas and its power base in the Gaza will follow his lead in any peace process. Couple this with the fracturing of the Palestinian political class, Israel in turn has little if any interest or motivation to negotiate anything away.
End result .... no peace talks, and no chance of any peace talks in the future.
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