Now the Hard Part begins....

As the President's trip to Israel winds down, and as Secretary Kerry gets ready to return to the area (he is supposed to return within 24 hours) to get serious about both security coordination with Israel with regards to Iran, Syria and Lebanon... the Secretary will also presumably be trying to jump start Peace Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.

This is where it gets difficult because to fulfill the Presidents vision of a viable Two State Solution he will have to work through some very tough forces against him.

From the Palestinian side you have The Salafists (who as a greeting to the President launched five Qassam Rockets) into Southern Israel.and who had this to say:

“The American president came here to divide Palestinians,” Sa’id Qasrawi, the spokesman of the Islamic bloc at Bir Zeit University, said. “He said there can be no peace with Hamas, and that he cannot support the Palestinian Authority while Hamas is present. We say: There can be no peace while the usurper entity Israel is present. We are the true owners of the land, and the Zionists must leave the land to its authentic owners.”

and:

The small Salafi group called Magles Shoura al-Mujahddin said in an Internet statement that it fired the rockets to show that Israeli air defenses could not stop attacks on the Jewish state during the visit.  ...

...."Responding to the bragging of the Roman dog and the war criminals of their so-called Iron Dome, we assert that all their military techniques will not stop God's destiny of tormenting them," the statement, posted on the Ansar al-Mujahideen website, which is used by Islamist terrorists, said.

As well as radicals in the Young radicalized Palestinian population who said:

At eleven o’clock, as a black helicopter began its descent, the demonstrators started marching toward the presidential palace, the Muqata. Now, it was the youth who were leading the chants, which were quickly becoming more fiery.

<em>“The people want RPGs, not [security] coordination and the CIA,” shouted one man. A young woman, unscarved and wearing tight jeans, cried out “no way to peaceful [resistance], only bullets and missiles.”</em>

 But these folks are not the only resistance to the Two State Solution stressed by the President.

Here is Deputy Defense Minister Naftali Bennett and Knesset Member Ayalet Shaked of HaBayit HaYehudi:

Here is Bennett:

<em>"The time has come for a shred of creativity and innovation in solving the conflict in the Middle East," Bennett said, challenging the wide acceptance of the two-state solution.

"Generally," the new minister added, "there is no occupation within one's own land."</em>

and Shaked:

<em>Knesset Member Ayalet Shaked, also from Habayit Hayehudi, said "Obama is a true friend of Israel, on this no one can argue. But at the end of the day, we are the ones who have to deal with the tragic and devastating consequences that are part of the establishment of a Palestinian state. <strong>That is the reason that just this week, the people selected a government that has no place for a two-state solution within its foundation.</strong>And if we are talking about Iron Dome, then the West Bank is our Iron Dome."</em>

There will certainly be more lunacy from both sides, as the various blogospheres collect and analyze the Presidents speech.  

Still, these two points (the Palestinian One State Solution folks and the Israeli One State solution folks) of view will make the Presidents vision that much more difficult to attain. Particularly as Hamas and the Salafist groups gain popularity in the West Bank and within the Palestinian polity as well, AND the Israeli government that is represented across almost all of it's Security or National Security areas by those who directly and outwardly oppose the Two State Solution. 

As I have written elsewhere on this blog that I think The Two State Solution is eventually going to happen, I think it is important we work towards this goal to avoid the bloodshed that will force this situation. 

I am curious to see what our  policies going forward will be but, even while I foresee American reticence to support the Israeli settlement enterprise in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank, I also foresee America's push against Palestinian radicalism and jihadi sympathies.