Can the Obama administration forge a peace agreement, and what steps should it be taking in Mideast policy?

"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail — as they inevitably will — the more pressing question may be:

You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land.

Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves. Israeli governments believe they can defy

In a comment about the renewed Arab-Israeli peace talks in Washington , Amr Mousa, and Secretary General of the Arab League alleged that many people were not optimistic about the

As history has it peace talks initiated by the US has continued to be regarded as a means to an end to the world's superpower.

Israeli media sources have confirmed that the Israeli government has informed the US envoy for the peace process in the region, George Mitchell, of its rejection of the Palestinian preconditions