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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/05/14/martin-indyks-appalling-answers/
Martin Indyk's View of the Breakdown in Talks
(Commentary) Rick Richman - Ambassador Martin Indyk's address last week to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, castigating Israel for "rampant settlement activity," featured assertions that were simply wrong. Settlement activity was not rampant, and almost all of it was in areas Israel would retain under any peace agreement. On the Palestinian refusal to discuss recognition of a Jewish state, Indyk seemed to accept Abbas' assertion this was "a new requirement." But Ambassador Dennis Ross has stated: "When I hear it said that this is the first time this issue has been raised - the people who say that think that no one knows history....When we were at Camp David [in 2000], this issue was raised."