Benjamin Weinthal
Israel’s ten-month moratorium on new settlement construction in the disputed West Bank territories expired on Sunday. The Obama administration’s intense preoccupation with turning the end of Israeli settlement construction into the sine qua non of Middle East peace has come to resemble the meaningless rituals of obsessive-compulsive disorder, like OCD sufferer who repeatedly cleanses his hands but refuses to embrace the discomfort of the actual dirty work of treatment.
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