Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel, said that Mrs. Clinton's speech had succeeded in reaffirming the strategic importance of the United States-Israel relationship while not backing down on settlements.
But mostly there was the feeling that a newly begun sentence could wind up going almost anywhere, crossing the plains into an unknown country or doubling back on a settlement that suddenly looked different than it did the first time we passed it.
Netanyahu sounded a defiant tone today, refusing to back down on settlement construction in East Jerusalem, but he faced a new round of criticism after four Palestinian teenagers were shot dead on the occupied West Bank in the space of 24 hours, in what Palestinian officials condemned as an Israeli military escalation.
Israeli conservatives figured the American Eagle was toothless given that Obama had already backed down once on settlements.
He recalls how AIPAC enlisted its congressional cutouts to back Netanyahu's position on settlements (and not the U.S. position) in 2009 and 2010, when he had the temerity to suggest a 90-day settlement freeze.
Herman said Friday that SCA Promotions does not have a case because, "under Texas law, there is no going back on a voluntary settlement".
William Ernest Carter of Philadelphia, for example, had insured his children's King Charles Spaniel and Airedale for $100 and $200, respectively, and later received settlements back on land.
They demand that Israel make simultaneous gestures, such as pulling back troops and promising a freeze on settlements.
Patent trolls would not be able to do what they do if companies fought back, because their survival is predicated on settlements.
Nudged back on to the NFL settlement, he focused.
