Although the Obama administration, in particular Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is maintaining a cautiously positive stance about the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there doesn’t seem to be much progress on that front — which, as Al Jazeera English points out in this report, might have to do with all involved parties driving a hard-line approach. –KA

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