"No Progress ...."

McClatchy's, here

"...Netanyahu also declined to use the phrase "two-state solution," which Obama said should be the goal. Instead, Netanyahu said that Israelis "don't want to govern Palestinians. We want to live in peace with them. We want them to govern themselves, absent a handful of powers that could endanger the state of Israel."

Obama said that Israeli "settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward." Netanyahu, however, made no public commitment toward that, and as they met, Israeli settlers were moving forward with plans to build Israel's first new settlement in the Jordan Valley in more than a quarter-century.....

However, their body language appeared strained at times during their public appearance, and Obama made clear that he expects Israel to make some concessions. "We have seen progress stalled on this front, and I suggested to the prime minister that he has an historic opportunity to get a serious movement on this issue during his tenure," he said. The leaders didn't issue any joint agreement following the meeting, .......

In a conference call with media after the joint appearance, organized by the pro-diplomacy Israel Peace Forum, Samuel Lewis, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, said of Obama and Netanyahu, "I don't know that they moved the ball." Oded Eran, a former Israeli ambassador to the European Union and peace negotiator who also participated on the call, said, "I don't think there was a change in Netanyahu's position ... there's nothing new."