Dan Kurtzer

While the political situation for the Palestinians is steadily improving, this can be easily shattered by one mistake by a militant thinking he knows best.

After a century in which tragedy has been heaped upon tragedy across the Middle East, it is distressing to see how many dangerous illusions still shape the behavior of so many of the region's principal players.

Instead of this false symmetry in which charges are fabricated to appear balanced, the US president should simply lay out who has been responsible for the delayed peace process.