Israel Chooses Settlements Over Friends

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government fervently believes that the Jewish settlements in the West Bank - whose expansion it supports - are irrelevant to its conflict with the Palestinians. Rather, the Israeli government thinks that the core of the conflict is located in what it sees as the Arab rejection of the Jewish people's right to a nation-state in even a part of the Jewish ancestral homeland.

http://www.newsmax.com/JeffreyGoldberg/Benjamin-Netanyahu-Israel-Middle-East-Palestinians/2014/10/23/id/602688/