AMERICAN INTEREST
Can Trump Overcome Obama’s Israel Failure?
by Robert Satloff
January 3, 2017

…Indeed, for all his protestations, President Obama is the first chief executive since President Johnson to register neither achievement nor even progress toward Arab-Israeli peace on his watch. That the Obama administration ends where it began, with a near-obsessive focus on Israeli settlement construction as the key to unlock the Middle East peace process, suggests that it learned virtually nothing from its experience of the last eight years…Beyond the stillborn call for a settlement freeze, this [Obama]  “normalization” extended to such truly strategic decisions as Washington’s refusal to share with Israel information about the secret Iran nuclear negotiations. READ MORE