re: #51 davinvalkri

That’s where the terrorism starts. This is good, but the Palestinians are going to need this drumbeaten into them.

Yes, it needs to go a lot further. If the intention was to redress the balance between browbeating Israel over settlements and explicit and renewed acceptance of the “two state solution”, while at the same time requiring no change in the behaviour of the Palestinians, it has a long way to go to achieve that goal. Of course, I have no idea what’s going on in Obama’s mind, but I would be very surprised if he followed up on this with something more concrete and which continued to ameliorate Israel’s position.