Does Obama want peace?

There's a lot in this article with which I do not agree (particularly his claim that Abu Mazen and Salam Fayyad are men of peace), but this is spot-on and has to be passed on. The ostensible reason the Netanyahu government’s construction decision was treated as a grave offense was that it impeded the peace process. But it is hard to see why, and it is even harder to see why it was treated as