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“The best options for a last-minute Obama intervention [in the peace process] require a stepping up of the rhetoric and intentions. That would mean a UN resolution directly initiated by the US, or a policy speech that packed its punches rather than go over old ground.”

(Yossi Beilin, writing in Haaretz on the choices US President Obama faces in the peace process during his short time left in office, 30/10/2016)