Shock and horror: Understandings reached with Bush administration now 'worthless'

Israeli negotiators who met with emissaries of President Obama in London last week to try to work out a compromise regarding the 'settlement freeze' discovered to their shock and horror that all of the understandings that the Sharon and Olmert governments had reached with Bush administration were now 'worthless.' The Israeli delegates were stunned by the uncompromising U.S. stance, and by