Everything is always Israel’s fault.
Via CNS News:
Announcements of Israeli settlement expansion made during the U.S.-led Mideast peace effort that ended inconclusively last month were designed to sabotage the talks, according to the administration’s point man in the negotiations.
“The promoters of the settlement activity were the ones who were adamantly opposed to the negotiations, even though they were in a government that was committed to the negotiations,” Martin Indyk said Thursday night. “And it was that determination to use settlement activity as a way of sabotaging negotiations that succeeded.”
Answering questions after a speech at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy conference, Indyk recalled that at the outset of the nine-month peace drive, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been unable to offer a settlement construction freeze as demanded by Abbas, because of the makeup of his fragile coalition.
“The prime minister chose instead to release these prisoners,” he said, referring to Netanyahu’s pledge to free 104 long-term Palestinian prisoners, in stages through the process.