The Rest of the Story - By James Traub | Foreign Policy

"Indeed, nowhere else across the spectrum of major foreign-policy issues -- not Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, or China -- has the Obama administration invested so much effort for so little. What killed the process was not a change in the Palestinian position, but in the Israeli one... The Obama administration could just wash its hands of the whole mess, save for the fact that Israeli intransigence has become a problem for the United States -- as well as for the Palestinians."