Finally.
"For the first time in America's decades of jousting with Israel over West Bank settlements, an American president seems to have succeeded in isolating the settlements issue and disconnecting it from other elements of support for Israel," reports Haaretz.
In fact, when Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu came to Capitol Hill last month "after being pressed by President Obama to freeze the expansion of West Bank settlements, he was 'stunned,' Netanyahu aides said, to hear what seemed like a well-coordinated attack against his stand on settlements. The criticism came from congressional leaders, key lawmakers dealing with foreign relations and even from a group of Jewish members."
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post reports an Obama administration official thinks "an arrangement that works" can be hammered out with Israel on the settlement issue.
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