“Sour words on Mideast peace as Obama admits setbacks
“Israel and the Palestinians belittled each other’s commitment to peace as U.S. President Barack Obama admitted he had underrated the difficulty of reviving deadlocked Middle East negotiations. As his envoy George Mitchell began a fresh attempt to get the two sides talking to each other, Obama told Time Magazine: ‘This is just really hard … and if we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.’ Obama said his administration had underestimated the internal political constraints preventing bold peace moves by either camp and 2009 had ended without the kind of breakthrough he set out to achieve at the start of his term”
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