Nice use of selective quoting. What I said was, "The US must come down very hard on Israel and the Palestinians to create a workable peace" and I stand by that statement.
We have leverage with Israel, what leverage do we have with the Palestinians?
How exactly, would you come down very hard on them? Bomb them? Shoot them? Talk to them in an angry voice while wagging your finger in their face?
Get real.
What would you do to the Palestinians that we have not done over the last thirty years, during which time they have refused to make peace with Israel, even though Clinton and Barak offered them a state on a silver plate?