Abstract

The early hope that the two-state solution would be implemented during the Obama presidency faded as both the Mitchell and Kerry negotiations failed. Only during his final weeks in office did Obama agree to the US abstaining on a UN vote condemning the ongoing Israeli settlements in territory earmarked as part of a future Palestinian state. After he leaves the presidency, there is a slim chance that Obama might join Jimmy Cater in working to mobilize American voters and taxpayers around efforts by Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) and other movements to oppose pro-Zionist lobbies, especially American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and to force Congress and the President to pressure Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories and enable the creation of a de-militarized Palestinian state.

Highlights

  • The early hope that the two-state solution would be implemented during the Obama presidency faded as both the Mitchell and Kerry negotiations failed

  • The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security

  • With the sole exception of Jimmy Carter, who after taking office, and in the years since leaving Washington, has become highly knowledgeable about the conflict and who speaks more forcefully about the need and justice of a Palestinian state than any other past US president, Barack Obama arguably knew more about the complex history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the plight of the Palestinians than any candidate to enter

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Introduction

The early hope that the two-state solution would be implemented during the Obama presidency faded as both the Mitchell and Kerry negotiations failed. President Barack Obama’s much quoted speech, given at Cairo University early in his first term, offered some hope that, after more than 50 years of conflict, the United States might serve as a truly neutral mediator to achieve statehood for the Palestinians and an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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