US Facing Ticking Clock on End of Building Freeze

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Egypt on Tuesday, before taking the traveling American “talk show” to Jerusalem and 13 days before Israel's temporary 10-month building freeze is to end.
Abbas has won American support for an extension of the freeze on building of homes for Jews living in Judea and Samaria, but Prime Minister Netanyahu this week played the “Jewish State” card. Abbas’ refusal to characterize Israel as a Jewish State while calling for “two states for two peoples” may weaken the American case that Israel continue the freeze, which has been a "red line" for Abbas.
U.S. State Department officials have conceded that one of Clinton’s main tasks will be to try to change the attitudes on both the PA and Israeli sides before she meets with leaders in Jerusalem and Ramallah Wednesday.
Obama's pitch may be the last one if the PA does not accept at least a partial thaw in the building freeze rather than recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a designation which would implicitly complicate Abbas' demand that Israel allow the immigration of several million foreign Arabs claiming ancestry in Israel.
Another Category 4 hurricane is heading toward the East Coast of the United States.  Meanwhile, this administration is still pushing Israel to give up the Land God gave them.