Obama and the Middle East - too little, too late?

Why now? What's the Obama administration playing at? Isn't it all a bit too little and much too late?
There's been much scratching of heads since the US took the unusual step of allowing a resolution condemning Israel's settlements policy to pass the UN Security Council last week.
And since John Kerry's speech on Wednesday, Obama's critics have spoken out against the president and his secretary of state for something they see as an unwarranted betrayal.
The former US diplomat Elliott Abrams, writing in the conservative Weekly...