"Obama has left Netayahu with little "wiggle room" on the settlement issue..."

Via WPR, here in the Jerusalem Post.

"...Netanyahu finds himself with no wiggle room - forced to choose between defying Obama in order to maintain settlement construction (and "be cast as obstructionist"), or freezing all building ( including "natural expansion")and grappling with immense dissent, at the very least, from domestic rivals.......

What played out in the White House on Monday was an acutely uncomfortable clash of divergent outlooks in which there could be only one winner. The sanguine world superpower host displayed absolutely no intention of recalibrating the vision that he'd sketched out as he headed toward the White House and has filled in since he got there. And the troubled regional superpower guest, rather than overt confrontation, opted to beat as dignified a retreat as he could muster......

Here, it is not just Netanyahu, but a near-consensus in Israel, that holds that even the warmest-hearted Palestinians will not dare energize a reconciliation with Israel so long as Iran, and by extension Hamas and Hizbullah, are in the ascendant.,,"