President Obama said renewing direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians might produce peace in a year. But just three months later, they aren't talking at all and it's back to shuttle diplomacy. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton said the US would continue peace efforts, even after Israel turned down a controversial American offer of billions in high-tech fighter planes in exchange for a three-month freeze on settlement-building in the West Bank.
Do the Middle East Peace Talks Have a Future?
Credits
Guests:
- Daniel Kurtzer - Princeton University
- Daoud Kuttab - Al Monitor - @daoudkuttab
- Efraim Inbar - Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
- Peter Beinart - editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, author of The Beinart Notebook Substack, professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York - @PeterBeinart