Perhaps Obama’s central error was that an important but minor matter – stopping new settlements – was given central significance. An indefinite building freeze would lead to the immediate end of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government in Jerusalem, without giving Israel or Netanyahu anything tangible in return.
或许奥巴马的核心失误在于之前他给予停止新建定居点这一重要但不起决定作用的问题太过的关注。 无限期冻结新建定居点会立即终结以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在耶路撒冷的联合政府，而以色列或内塔尼亚胡却无法从中获得任何好处。 内塔尼亚胡不会延长冻结时间的事实应该再明显不过。