"If John Kerry has been working to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, he just made a convincing case about how miserably he has failed.
So why would anyone think his 11th-hour, 8,709-word scolding to Israel Wednesday will suddenly move the ball forward?...
Fact is, there's no consensus on any part of the Kerry-Obama vision in the United States or the Middle East - and Team Obama knows it. Why else would they wait until the last three weeks of their tenure to make their plan public, and spell it out only after delivering a swift blow to Israel at the UN Security Council (on the Friday before Christmas weekend, no less)?
Here's the core problem: Kerry and Obama suffer under the delusion that the parties to such a deal both want it. Yet Palestinians have had numerous opportunities - going back decades - to reach a compromise and have rejected it every time...
How pathetic and harmful that after years of failure - not just on the Israel-Palestinian front, but throughout the world - Team Obama is now desperately looking to lock in terms and tie the hands of a Trump team that is vowing a new direction..."