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Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/12/another_jerusalem_impasse_for.html
Obama's Double-or-Nothing Moment in the Middle East
(Washington Post) Jackson Diehl - The latest collapse of the Middle East peace process has left President Obama with a tough choice: quietly shift one of his prized foreign policy priorities to a back burner - or launch a risky redoubling of U.S. efforts. Netanyahu agreed in principle to a three-month partial freeze of building in the West Bank, but the Palestinians preemptively announced that the deal wouldn't be good enough for them to end their walkout from the talks, because it didn't include Jerusalem.