Deitch's article grossly understates the representation which the settlers will have in the new Israeli government, referring in only the most general terms to the inclusion of the Jewish Home, "a party aligned with West Bank settlers",  and  that: "Significant progress on talks on the peace front could prove to be more difficult than other domestic issues, given bitter disagreements among coalition members...."  A closer examination of the members of incoming government provided by Mondoweiss' Adam Horowitz and Haaretz, one of Israel's leading newspapers, paints a very different picture in which there is little, if any, difference of opinion on the key issue effecting peace prospects---the settlements.  I apologize for the long quotation, but as they say:  "the 'devil' really is in the details":

"[T]here is at least one issue everyone agrees on. There is a solid consensus within the governing coalition behind the ongoing colonization of the West Bank. The Housing and Construction portfolio, which oversees settlement construction, will go to Habayit Hayehudi's Uri Ariel, who Haaretz named the #1 pro-settlement Knesset member in a 2011 poll. In fact, Ariel is part of the growing Knesset faction calling on Israel to annex the West Bank and is an open supporter of Greater Israel. Haaretz's Barak Ravid says the settler movement is the overwhelming winner in the new government:

The government has not yet been finally constituted, but it seems that most of the key positions will be filled by settlers and their supporters. We may assume that as housing minister, Uri Ariel will devote a good deal of his time to expanding the settlements in the West Bank and advancing tenders and building in the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. He will certainly say that construction in the settlements will contribute to supply and to lower housing prices.

The probable new defense minister, Moshe Ya’alon, is considered among the settlers’ favorite figures in Likud. The defense minister is key to construction in the settlements, opening and closing the faucet as he pleases. Ya’alon, who attacked his predecessor Ehud Barak for dragging his feet in approving construction in the settlements, and for thwarting the legalizing of illegal outposts, intends to change the policy.

As opposed to the last four years, settler leaders will have an open door to the defense minister’s office. They will find one of their own in the next office, too, that of the deputy defense minister. MK Ze’ev Elkin, a settler himself, is slated for that job, and will be in charge of the whole matter of settlements.

The list goes on – as industry, trade and labor minister, Naftali Bennett can redraw the map of national priorities and give government benefits to more settlements. Wearing the hat of public diplomacy minister, Bennett will try to persuade the world that there is no Palestinian people and the settlements are actually legal.

His party colleagues Nissan Slomiansky and Ayelet Shaked on the Knesset Finance Committee will see to the cash-flow; Uzi Landau in the tourism minister will open bed-and-breakfasts in Yitzhar and will launch an international campaign to bring evangelical tourists to Tapuah and Bat-Ayin. The Jerusalem affairs minister, Uri Orbach, will get an empty portfolio, but he will certainly think of a way to help the Elad association." http://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/govenment-intensify-colonize.html.

This is the government that will greet Obama this coming week--one dedicated to contining and expanding Israel's colonization of the West Bank and killling all prospects of a just peace.  After four years of playing the part of Neville Chamberlain and appeasing Israel's government at every turn, it is time for Obama to play the role he has yet to play, but for which he received a Nobel Peace Prize, and take a firm stand against Israel's continued and illegal occupation of the West Bank and the war crimes committed daily to maintain that occupation.