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?
I am not a foreign policy expert, I am simply telling you what has been told to me by friends of mine. The anti-American feelings in the Middle East are directly because of what is happening between the Israelis and Palestinians. How this situation will be solved, I don't know. Again, I am not the expert on the region. I do know until this is solved, don't expect peace and expect anti-American feelings to continue if not grow.