| Summary: | This thesis aims to explain the lack of success in US mediation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Obama presidency. The US had a considerabe potential due to its capacity and resources available to bring the conflict parties to a settlement. The thesis focuses on the US internal dynamics and not external influences. Thus, the work analyzes the mediation procedure applied by the US, the exercise of leverage during the negotiations and the stance of the US Congress towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution. The thesis answers subsequent questions. What mediating procedures were applied by the United States during the Obama presidency? Was leverage used? If yes, what forms of leverage were utilized? What were the issues at the core of the leverage exercise? Based on these questions, the thesis analyzes three hypotheses. Firstly, that the US acted primarily as facilitator of communication rather than formulator or manipulator. Secondly, it assumes that the US was not successful in the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict due to a relatively scarce exercise of its leverage in the process of mediation. Lastly, it claims that the US Congress did not respond flexibly to the dynamics of the US foreign policy in the mediation of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
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