Obama truly lost the trust of the Israel when he merely replaced the ordnance used in Operation Cast Lead instead of tripling it. Again, when he installed a multi billion dollar ordnance dump that requires Israel to declare an existential emergency before tapping into it.
He remarks that Israel respect international is absolutely ridiculous as he has no respect for them and as no great power or their allies should.
Obama must tell the Palestinians to prepare for a century long negotiation and accept the fact that Israel will continue to metastasize until it has enough depth to protect itself against all attacks. That they as a conquered untermench have no rights to water, to farm, to petition their rulers for redress nor any right, except to leave.

A fairly reasonable article. Obama has lost the trust of the Palestinians because the he says he supports their cause and then undermines them at every opportunity. He even vetoed the UN resolution which condemned the illegal settlements, even though the resolution was specifically written to accord with US policy. He talks of two states for two peoples and then does everything he can to prevent that coming to fruition.
His constant bowing and scraping to the Israeli lobby is sickening to see. It appears that the US have given up their sovereignty as far as foreign affairs go.
The best thing the US and Obama can do is to keep out of the Israel Palestine issue. They have been at the forefront of this endless "peace process" for decades. While this suits the needs of Israel to give them the opportunity to steal more and more land and resources, it only undermines the credibility of the US in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Even though it is somewhat refreshing not to have the normal rabid comments seen on these pages from 'institutes', 'forums', written by cultural fellows, analysts, but sayanims one and all emerging from yet another Jewish front organisation under many names and titles, the main content did not address matters of importance to the Palestinians as they are well aware that the “Peace Process” has long since gone, stifled by American manipulation per courtesy of a compliant and corrupt Congress.

Imprinted in one’s mind was the last effort around what is laughingly called the ‘negotiating table’ at the "Peace Conference”. On one side of the table was Netanyahu with the two other members; from the US, Clinton, a feckless and jaundiced Jewish fellow-traveller and with her, the corrupt Mubarak, a man now deposed and soon to be charged in Egypt for corruption, both purporting to be independent advisors.

Representing Palestine was Abbas, hopefully not naive enough to consider that he was with anyone genuine but certainly not 'independent' advisors. So it has been this way for years, the charade continues while more murders occur, land is stolen, buildings bull-dozed and villages levelled. all for ‘Eretz Israel,’ the only true motivation for Netanyahu and his sycophants in the US.

So that is the climate that the US wants the world to see as a ‘Peace Process’. Too late for Obama. He has had his chance and has shown by his actions that he is just another pawn, brought and paid for by Israel with no interest in peace as per the terms required by the world, addressing matters going back to 1967.

So just as Israel is using all its influence and cunning to shut down any further investigation of the Likudist Murdoch and his immoral practices, existing as he does to promote Israel and its views and not to represent the views of any Arab country in any of his publications, so they are also using bribery and threats to garner support for a “no’ vote against Palestine in the vote at the UN in September.

It never stops

President Obama should just give up on the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks that have gone absolutely nowhere since October 1973. Not one grain of sand has been returned to the Palestinians from the date Israel attacked and seized The West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in June 1967. Where is the Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in all this? It looks like she knows a disaster in the making and has tucked her head under her arm thinking she might need the Jewish New York vote if she wants to return to her post as Senator there.

The article and the conclusions therein is not biased but realistic who wrote it again Geoffrey Levin of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council well there is no way he is going to be biased is there?

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman don't want Obama to mess up their well laid plans by interfering in that which doesn't concern him. President Obama must allow for sufficient time for them to complete their ethnically cleansing of all the occupied territories then they will be ready to talk but by that time there will be nothing left to talk about.

An apartheid state, Israel, in a democratic Middle East, how will it survive without the USA?

The first paras of this article, the critique of Obama's manoeuvering, are well-argued. But then Levin demonstrates how fiendishly difficult it is for either side to take a truly even-handed approach. All his prescriptions for what Obama should do are about telling unpleasant truths to the Palestinians. Apparently the Israelis don't need the same treatment. So how will this regain the trust of the Palestinians?

If Obama wants to do anything useful he must first regain the trust of his own American people.

I don't think he is bright enough to know how to do that. Either that, or he is too pig headed.

That is something Ozzies are all to familiar with.