Obama's Team and a New US Middle East Policy

Here is an important article examining changes in US policy and strategy for Israel and Palestine to shift to final status issues on the front end:

Conflict in the Holy Land is the single most destabilizing influence in world affairs. Over 3.6 billion people, living in every nation in the world, believe history's most sacred treasures, their "own" most sacred treasures are there.

On the 1st anniversary of US President Obama's pledge to make "the Middle East a top foreign-policy priority," and after this same 1st year of dismal results in the area, President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell Jr. have announced a radical change in policy to one that comes extremely close to being perfectly ill-conceived

The article explains the basic reason why this can not work.