In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) last night, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, appeared to give a two-fingered salute to the Obama administration, which has pushed for a freeze on settlement-building with the hope of peace talks with the Palestinians resuming.
Netanyahu’s Aipac speech: paying lip-service to peace
The Israeli prime minister's intransigence makes peace talks implausible.