Hillary Clinton has the potential to go one better than her husband. The former president left it late, much too late, to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the dying days of his presidency in 2000-2001, he led negotiations between the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the then Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, aimed at securing the elusive Middle East peace deal. While
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