Palestinian Prisoners and President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: Recent weeks have seen the parties introduce stumbling blocks aimed at frustrating any breakthrough, including Israel reneging on its commitment to release a further batch of Palestinian prisoners. A measure of the desperation felt by Mr. Kerry and President Barack Obama is that they considered releasing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from prison as a tradeoff for Israel fulfilling its prisoner release commitments, which Israel has now cancelled. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Abbas, Israel in leverage dance The mood in Washington is despondent, at least on Secretary of State John Kerrys initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock. Israel cancels fourth release of prisoners over Palestinian UN push (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.