As anticipated, the Obama administration’s efforts to impose a peace settlement have proved to be a disastrous failure. Regrettably, the US intervention has only exacerbated the situation. The peace settlements between Israel and Egypt and Jordan were achieved because both parties sought to come to an accommodation. The US did not then seek to impose solutions. It only became involved as a facilitator after both parties had taken the initial steps and invited its participation. The flawed initiatives by the Obama administration have resulted in the standing of the US in both Israel and the Arab world plummeting to its lowest level. The pressure was exerted overwhelmingly on Israel while the Palestinians, who were treated with kid gloves, refused to make a single meaningful compromise. The positive memories of Obama’s visit to Israel and the ongoing defense support and co-operation – now at an all-time high – were overshadowed by Israeli anger against the US for bullying its government into releasing brutal mass murderers who were subsequently glorified as heroes by the Palestinian Authority. The PA demanded this as a prerequisite to even agreeing to negotiate. It is now time for the Obama administration to accept the reality that the PA has evolved into a criminal society. How else to define a regime which brainwashes kindergarten-age children into believing that Israel and the Jews are evil parasites, and continuously calls for the elimination of the Jewish state? This demonization of Israel is reinforced daily by the mullahs in the mosques, and by the PA-controlled media. In addition, terrorists are sanctified, treated as heroes and awarded state pensions. Despite all the efforts and concessions Israel has made, there are signals the Obama administration will cast the blame on us for the failure of negotiations, which we realized from the outset were doomed as a hopeless charade. (Israel National News)

 “He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.” Job 12:24