Steve Clemons, an analyst at the New America Foundation in Washington, says he knows how to achieve peace in the Middle East:

At the end of the day, Obama has to be willing to put the screws to Israel.

Would it ever occur to him to propose “putting the screws” to the Palestinians, recommending that the Obama administration tell Gazans, for example, that they need to decide whether they prefer to live in peace, or whether they’d rather sacrifice their lives and those of their children to Hamas’s explictly stated cause: the annihilation of Israel?