Who Is to Fill the Gap Between Obama and Liberman?

摘要

Officials at the White House were not surprised by the Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieber-man rejecting the renewed proposal by US President Barack Obama for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem, based upon two states - Israel with Jerusalem as its capital and a Palestinian state - living side-by-side peacefully.rnThe Obama administration's proposal, officially put forward by the US Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell during his visit to the region in mid-April, was considered by the Israeli government as a campaign aiming at pressuring the Jewish state into accepting the two-state solution. During the first meeting between the former US senator and the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, the negotiations did not reach practical result.