The Israeli-Palestinians negotiations mediated by US Secretary of State John Kerry were a failure, and at the end of the allotted nine month period the two sides could not even agree on a document of principles, the so-called framework agreement. For now, the United States has decided to suspend its efforts to continue the negotiations and reassess the overall political process between Israel and the Palestinians. At this point, then, two questions arise: Why did the negotiations fail, and how should we proceed from here?
