U.S. President Barack Obama’s meetings with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the
sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in late September
renewed speculation about what, if anything, the president would do to
advance the goal of Israeli-Palestinian peace before he leaves office.
With just four months left in his term, and virtually no chance of
resuming negotiations before then, the president is reportedly considering
the option of laying out the basic parameters of a final status
agreement, perhaps in the form of a UN Security Council resolution, as a
way to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution under a future
U.S. administration.
That Obama is now seen as the last, best hope
for a two-state solution is deeply ironic given how little he has done
to advance that goal in the nearly eight years since he took office. Not
only has he failed to live up to the high expectations he set out at
the start of his administration, Obama is on his way to becoming the
first U.S. president in more than four decades to break no new political
ground in terms of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact,
his legacy could well be the death of the two-state solution itself. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/israel/2016-10-05/obamas-record-israeli-palestinian-peace
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