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    "[The Administration] made it worse by not having a very good learning curve," says Abrams. "It was already clear last spring that Netanyahu was not going to accept the settlement freeze, and in June, when Obama visited Saudi Arabia, it became clear that the Arabs were not going to do any outreach to Israel. It's now November. Why has it taken them so long to figure this out?" Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator now at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center, agrees that the Administration's initial demands of Israel and the Arab states were misguided, created unrealistic expectations, and "have allowed both the Israelis and the Palestinians to say no to the United States without suffering any consequences." Full Article at Time Magazine
    It was already clear last spring that Netanyahu was not going to accept the settlement freeze, and in June, when Obama visited Saudi Arabia, it became clear that the Arabs were not going to do any outreach to Israel. It's now November. Why has it taken them so long to figure this out?
    SOURCE: Time Magazine 3 weeks ago
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Does Obama Have a Plan B for the Middle East?
  1. The political factors that make it impossible for Netanyahu to accept the settlement freeze also make it highly unlikely that he could conclude a deal acceptable to the Palestinians
    Daniel Levy – Daniel Levy SOURCE: Time Magazine 3 weeks ago
  2. We can't impose a solution, because we have no capacity to enforce one ... The President won't put out U.S. ideas on a solution without a reasonable expectation of success.
    – Aaron David Miller SOURCE: Time Magazine 3 weeks ago
  3. I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground
    SOURCE: Time Magazine 3 weeks ago
  4. have allowed both the Israelis and the Palestinians to say no to the United States without suffering any consequences.
    SOURCE: Time Magazine 3 weeks ago

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