Tsrael's prime minister, Binyamin Net-1 anyahu, and its defence minister, Ehud Barak, have been veritably flooding the airwaves with protestations of their zeal for peacemaking, despite the seemingly definitive breakdown of talks with the Palestinians three months ago. The peace process will top his agenda, Mr Netanyahu recently assured his Likud party, having triumphantly pushed through a budget for the next two years. It was not he who balked late last year at putting a stop to the building or expanding of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Mr Netanyahu told a parliamentary committee on January 3rd. It was, he claimed, the Americans who backed away from insisting on a new freeze.
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