Year Two for the American president starts without much hope in the Arab world.–Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo).

“As time went by, it became clear that Netanyahu was running circles around Obama. As soon as Netanyahu sniffed the storm that was brewing in Obama’s speech at Cairo University, he took action. Within weeks, Netanyahu had mobilised Jewish pressure groups in America in an effort aiming to obstruct all attempts to change the course of US policy in the Middle East. Netanyahu’s success was as spectacular as it was immediate. Not only did he make Obama eat his words on the freeze of all settlement activities, he also stopped all efforts by the American president to start dialogue with Iran and Hamas.”