How Kerry can achieve peace in Middle East

March 01, 2013 04:10

The U.S. secretary of state is currently travelling in the Middle East and the president will be travelling there next month. But this time, neither John Kerry nor Barack Obama will focusing primarily on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations as secretaries of state and presidents have done so often in the past.

This time, Obama and Kerry will be dealing mainly with the more pressing issues of an ongoing and bloody civil war in Syria and a suspected nuclear weapons program in Iran. That has left some analysts, as well as officials in the region, grousing that Washington may have lost interest in the Israeli-Palestinian impasse after almost 40 years of trying without success to broker a peace accord between the two sides.

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