![CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The truce between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza appears to be holding but a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians could be harder to come by. Peaceful coexistence between Israel and a Palestinian state seemed within sight in the early 1990s explained Roosevelt University Political Science Professor David Faris. “The photograph on the White House lawn with with Bill Clinton and [Yitzhak] Rabin and Yasser Arafat .That raised a lot of hopes,” Faris told WBBM Newsradio. That peace process that began with the Oslo Accords in 1993 descended into violence in 2000. Faris said every American president since Bill Clinton has tried — and failed — to get both sides to compromise on contentious issues that would lead to a lasting peace. “The read I get from the Biden administration is that like they don't think that they're the ones that can do it. Both because they have other priorities and because they don't want to take a big black eye making a major public effort to resolve the conflict only for that to fall apart again,” he said. But Faris said the United States is the only world power that could bring the Israelis and the Palestinians to the negotiating table.](https://radioimg.audacy.com/aiu-media/GettyImages1233000174-780b1af7-716a-43d9-a9d7-041c9846b133.jpg?width=800)
CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The truce between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza appears to be holding but a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians could be harder to come by.
Peaceful coexistence between Israel and a Palestinian state seemed within sight in the early 1990s explained Roosevelt University Political Science Professor David Faris.
“The photograph on the White House lawn with Bill Clinton and [Yitzhak] Rabin and Yasser Arafat. That raised a lot of hopes,” Faris told WBBM Newsradio.
That peace process that began with the Oslo Accords in 1993 descended into violence in 2000.
Faris said every American president since Bill Clinton has tried — and failed — to get both sides to compromise on contentious issues that would lead to a lasting peace.
“The read I get from the Biden administration is that like they don't think that they're the ones that can do it. Both because they have other priorities and because they don't want to take a big black eye making a major public effort to resolve the conflict only for that to fall apart again,” he said.
But Faris said the United States is the only world power that could bring the Israelis and the Palestinians to the negotiating table.
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