Time To Impose Middle East Peace?

Noting that President Obama's persistence against formidable odds won him health care reform and ratification of the START treaty, the "Economist" urges him to "persist in Palestine":

Instead of giving up, Mr Obama needs to change his angle of attack. America has clung too long to the dogma that direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians are the way forward. James Baker, a former secretary of state, once said that America could not want peace more than the local parties did. This is no longer true. The recent history proves that the extremists on each side are too strong for timid local leaders to make the necessary compromises alone. It is time for the world to agree on a settlement and impose it on the feuding parties.