U.S. peace process efforts ‘utterly stuck’

The Obama administration is out of ideas to keep the Palestinian-Israeli peace process afloat. In order to seek out fresh initiatives, the government has initiated two independent task forces that will advise on how to proceed. This outsourcing of policy creation reveals the discouraging state of U.S. diplomacy in the region. Politicoreports,

The solicitation of ideas comes as the administration’s peace efforts are “utterly stuck,” as one outside adviser who consults the administration on the issue told Politico Wednesday on condition of anonymity.”There’s no pretense of progress. With the State of the Union coming up and the new gop Congress, they are taking a few weeks [to regroup and solicit] ideas to push forward and … to give a real jump-start to what would be meaningful negotiations,” the adviser said.

Since the 1970s, the United States has burdened itself trying to strike a peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And yet, decades later, a peaceful solution is as far out of reach as when it started. As the Bible reveals, Jerusalem is a burdensome stone for any nation trying to bring it peace man’s way (Zechariah 12:3). To discover the stunning prophesied conclusion of American-led peace initiatives in the Holy City, read this.