Middle East peace process suspended as US envoy cancels trip

Also in the Middle East, US special envoy George Mitchell has now postponed his visit to Israel. Mitchell was originally scheduled to meet with Israeli officials today to begin the groundwork for indirect peace talks. But Israel's announcement to go forward with the construction of 1,600 units in East Jerusalem, coming during Vice President Joe Biden's trip to the region last week, seemed to take the US by surprise and since then, the talks have been up in the air.

To take a deeper look at some of these issues, we're joined by Naseer Aruri. He's professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.