On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama will be inaugurated for his second term as the 44th president of the United
States of America. As this day nears, it seems inevitable that he should be thinking about the legacy that he wants
to leave after eight years at the helm of this great country. In the Israeli-Palestinian arena, the arc of history
has dealt him a clear, binary choice: he can go down in history as the U.S. president who fought for and saved the
two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or he can go down in history as the president on whose
watch the two-state solution was lost, at the cost of the vital interests of both Israel and the United
States.