The Obama administration has withdrawn a package of security and diplomatic incentives for Israel in exchange for a three-month extension of a building moratorium in West Bank settlements, admitting that this wouldn't bring about resumption of Israel-Palestinian peace talks.  So who's to blame for this breakdown in the peace process?In his Dec. 8 front-page article, New York Times correspondent Mark Landler fingers Israel as the culprit.  "After three weeks of fruitless haggling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," he writes in his lead paragraph, "the Obama administration has given up its effort to persuade the Israeli government to freeze construction of Jewish settles for 90 days."The inference is clear.  Netanyahu torpedoed this latest U.S. initiative to restart direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, sinking it with "three weeks of fruitless haggling." The facts, however, prove...(Read Full Post)