In his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, President Obama said the following:

Netanyahu, naturally, stressed the primacy and immediacy of the Iranian threat, especially the mullahs’ march towards nuclear arms. Obama, however, sees the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” as a chip that can potentially be used to force Tehran to make concessions. But, here’s the problem. Hamas, the only entity that has the power at this point to make concessions on the Palestinians’ behalf, is not only a terrorist organization that does not believe in Israel’s right to exist, but also an Iranian proxy (despite being a Sunni terrorist group). So, in order for President Obama’s vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace to come to fruition, the following would have to be accomplished: