Saeb Erekat: "Once again, we are not against direct negotiations. Once again, we want to resume direct negotiations. And we believe that the key to direct negotiations is in the hand of the Israeli government. The minute they accept their obligation of stopping settlement activities and ( accepting ) the terms of reference of two states on ’67 [borders], with agreed territorial swap, I think we can begin direct negotiations immediately." - Goodman DemocracyNow 8/11/10

It's not as if President Obama did not have the example of his Democratic predecessor:

"After announcing his budget victory, the President boarded Marine One to fly to the Wye Plantation in Maryland, where he would negotiate the next phase of the efforts to achieve a Middle East peace. For eight days he was isolated there, returning on September 23 (1998) with an agreement. Bringing together the intransigent Yasser Arafat and the implacable Benjamin Netanyahu, he sat them down on either side of him on a stage in the East Room to sign the Wye River Accord. The painstaking negotiations were exhausting, and they nearly collapsed twice when Netanyahu threatened to walk out. At the last minute, his demand for the release of Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned for handing over U. S. national security secrets to the Israelis - a demand the President could not grant - nearly blew up the conference. But Clinton managed to win concessions from each side. He got the Israelis to turn over additional sections of the West Bank to Palestinian Authority control. From the Palestinians he wrung an agreement to drop anti-Israel paragraphs from the Palestinian National Charter and, under CIA supervision, to turn over terrorist suspects to Israel. The accord set the stage for the even more difficult negotiations for "permanent status".

In this Israeli-Palestinian work, Clinton regarded himself as a legatee, a political son, of the murdered Yitzhak Rabin, whom he revered above all other leaders, except perhaps Nelson Mandela. Clinton had erected private shrines to Rabin throughout the living quarters of the White House: he kept a plate of dirt from his grave and the yarmulke he had worn at Rabin's funeral, as well as a crystal sculpture of a dove that Hillary had given him to memorialize Rabin, displayed on a mantel. In the Oval Office, a bust of Rabin joined the busts of Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman, Franklin, and King." - paragraphs 2 & 3 on page 487 of Sidney Blumenthal's stunning 2003 The Clinton Wars.

* The rabid forces of evil, and we use that common term, in a sense, euphemistically, in that "evil" may not adequately describe the many determinative, Diasporative forms this Jewish/Israeli willingness assumes to court disaster 'round the globe, to force their control over the Middle East. The United States, the foremost power for good in this world has been, of late, compromised by the clout of AIPAC and the ADL etc., AND the pro-Jewish nature of the Obama administration.

A more precise description of the details of this existential threat to World Peace is provided by, first, "The Prior History" and, then, "Some of the Traitors Involved", both of which have been available on GOPBIAS.org now for several years. In fact, these items are among the many that this website provides. In sum, there is no excuse for this great country, with its history of providing a light and the determination for good in the rest of the world, no excuse to be so entangled with such a petty, malicious, self-serving band of pretentious delusional grandiose brigands who actually BELIEVE they are God's Chosen. Throughout GOPBIAS.org are examples of this blatant adulteration of the promise of America, and the concomitant growth of an insatiable Israel bent on control of the Middle East.