Things have also started to move in a third area: the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Obama wants a two-state solution, but, unlike Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, he hasn’t postponed tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until the end of his second term in office.
第三方问题的解决也开始启动：那就是以色列和巴勒斯坦争端。奥巴马致力于达成两国解决方案，但不同于比尔·克林顿及乔治·W·布什总统的是，他没有等到第二届总统任期临近结束时才着手解决以巴冲突。相反，奥巴马从一开始就选择积极面对。他同样没有回避在西岸定居点问题上与以色列政府的有限度的冲突。