As the calendar turns to the second year of the Obama presidency, assessments, advice and predictions are rolling in.

With regard to Obama’s approach to Israel, there are those defending the record as not as bad as the press plays it,
while others catalog the missteps.

For those, in the Administration and out, who think the President should just press on and get those Israeli-Palestinian negotiations going, one has to wonder how anyone can suggest there can be peace negotiations when one side won’t even talk to the other, but rather wants the United States to be its in “proxy” in making peace with Israel.

How absurd.

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