Obama admits defeat on renewed negotiations for two-state solution

Israel cannot possibly be expected in these circumstances to negotiate with the PLO on establishing secure and recognized borders as stipulated by President Obama and Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 – until Islamic State is finally degraded and destroyed.

President Obama has announced he is going back to the drawing board.

...the evaluation that's taking place is specific to what happens between the Israelis and Palestinians going forward. We'll continue to engage the Israeli government as well as the Palestinians, and ask them where they are interested in going and how do they see this issue being resolved. But what we can't do is pretend that there's a possibility of something that's not there. And we can't continue to premise our public diplomacy based on something that everybody knows is not going to happen at least in the next several years.

President Obama should – in such evaluation process - seriously explore the possibility of first demanding that President Mahmoud Abbas call Presidential and parliamentary elections in Gaza and the West Bank – last held in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

Let democracy replace these repressive dictatorships.