Henry Siegman is president emeritus of the US/Middle East Project and a past senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a visiting research professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and formerly headed the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America.
Washington’s assurances that it will defend Israel no matter what it does, however objectionable, kill any hope of a two-state solution to the conflict.
He can, if he presents a just peace plan supported by former Presidents Clinton and Bush.
What did Benjamin Netanyahu mean when he said he and Mahmoud Abbas should be prepared to make "painful concessions" for the sake of peace?