Why is the president dragging America into the middle of this most sensitive Israeli-Palestinian issue?

Arguably, the Israeli-Palestinian issues would have been more easily settled if Israel and Syria had made peace first.

I don't discount the myriad complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, but it is also an issue that can be resolved.

No small part of our relationships with places like Jordan are related to the ambition of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

No matter what Washington says about refusing any linkage to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, that exists in fact.

The American hope was that the vice president would not become enmeshed in Israeli-Palestinian issues.

There are external reasons: the Arab countries and the superpowers turning away from the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the sense of hopelessness about negotiations.

"He was like the State Department desk officer for the Israeli-Palestinian issue."

This House has, in long debates, discussed the Israeli-Palestinian issue too many times.

Thirdly, our lack of vision and political will in addressing the regional security challenges, mainly the Israeli-Palestinian issue, leads us towards ever worse crises.