MIDDLE EAST The Obama administration has reached an impasse in its Middle East peace strategy as it this week assesses progress – or lack of it – in nine months of intensive diplomacy aimed at reviving stalled Israeli-Palestinian talks.
In the face of rigid positions adopted by both sides, the administration has begun to talk of a long and difficult process towards the peace settlement that Barack Obama, president, made a high policy priority from his first day in the Oval Office last January.
