US President Barack Obama faces a difficult challenge as he prepares to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House as a wave of violence sweeps Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Obama hosts his Israeli counterpart with whom he has a strained relationship and few practical points of leverage to address a situation that analysts and rights activists say may spin out of control.
"Unless we have a much more proactive engagement by the current administration we could see ourselves slipping quickly into a major conflagration between groups in Gaza and Israel again," said Brian Katulis, a Middle East analyst for the Center for American Progress, a policy think-tank in Washington closely aligned with the Democratic party.
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