Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon
Guardian, Thursday December 4 2008
As Barack Obama enters the oval office he will face a series of daunting challenges. One of these is the age old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been seriously, yet unsuccessfully, tackled by every American president since Jimmy Carter. The inability to reach a peaceful solution has not only had fatal repercussions for the people in Israel and the Occupied Territories, but has also been detrimental to Middle East stability and to vital US interests in the region.
In recent years, some of the hurdles facing those political leaders who want to reach a peace agreement based on the two-state solution have only grown. The Palestinians are in the midst of an internal fray between the old-guard of Fatah and the fundamentalist Hamas ideologues, and currently there is no agreed-upon leadership with which one can negotiate. The Israeli political arena has also become much more polarised, and, it will be practically impossible for whichever party wins the coming elections to sign a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians, not least because the settler movement and its supporters will control a critical bloc in the Knesset.
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