Unsettling questions

The question of Jewish settlements remains a difficult one. Obama will have a hard time changing minds, writes Juno McEnroe in Jerusalem

An Israeli man fixes a tent while a woman walks by in the illegal outpost of Yesuv Hadaat near the settlement of Shilo in the West Bank. Israeli police, who plan to tear down the outpost, razed a similar tiny Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank on May 21. Picture: Getty Images

ON a set of stony hills in the West Bank, a small cluster of newly built bungalows sit distinctly away from the fields of Palestinian olive trees.