How far could Israels current activities in East Jerusalem impede efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
Daniel Seidemann: A debate is still hovering within the Obama Administration – whether to fully engage the conflict, or go just for low-maintenance management of the conflict. There are very compelling arguments telling the President, ‘don’t go there – the U.S. can’t afford another failure in the Middle East, put it on the back burner’. But, the U.S. simply does not have that as an option. Firstly, the possibility of a two-state solution is literally hanging on by its finger-nails. It’s still possible for the two states to be formed with sustainable borders that are both viable and secure, but we’re very, very close to losing that: left unattended, Jewish settlement expansion within the eastern part of the city will reach a critical mass that will create a Balkanised stalemate, geographically and demographically, that would make the two- state solution impossible. After eight years of the Bush Administration’s ‘scorched earth’ policy there’s definitely a need for a period of reconstruc
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