Obama gave the signal that he supports Palestine no matter what is agreed. Jerusalem was never part of Bibi's house freeze. Palestine does what it does when it gets the idea that they don't have to compromise. Two State solution always sounded sketchy... but obviously Obama knows that isn't his goal. There is no doubt that he is not an outside party in this conflict.
Palestinians mounted violent protests in Jerusalem on Tuesday and President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy canceled plans to return to the region as a U.S.-Israeli crisis over Jewish settlement plans deepened.
Hundreds of rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with police in several locations in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in a 1967 war along with the West Bank. Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.
Fatah's military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, has demanded that the Palestinian Authority return its weapons in order to defend Jerusalem, after most of the organization members turned over their weapons to the PA as part of an amnesty agreement signed with Israel about two years ago. The Brigades said in a statement that the security forces in the West Bank were asked to release all detained fighers in order to let them join "the resistance against the occupation and the Zionist offensive."
