This week US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested that "Muslim countries" should give up some of their land to create a future Palestinian state. Do his remarks indicate that the US is backing away from being the peace broker in the Middle East conflict?  Mohd Amirul Asraf bin Othman of the Australian National University (ANU) weighs in.

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