But it accused the United States of coming to the table with an inflexible position.
Netanyahu's apparently inflexible position on Syria may also be deceptive, Israeli officials say.
Voters will be electing a slate of inflexible positions rather than a leader.
Purists may influence policy by maintaining inflexible positions, but that's not whom you want running the country.
But it is not clear that Bibi was being punished for his inflexible position on the peace process.
While he opposed abortion, Mr. Reagan repeatedly sought to blur the issue, unlike Mr. Bush, who was boxed into an inflexible position opposing it.
Before I left, we talked about Pope Francis and his often disappointing response to the crisis, as well as the Church's inflexible positions on the celibacy requirement, women in the clergy, contraception, homosexuality, and so on.
Instead of taking a single inflexible position, Bernanke has offered a nuanced take on whether inflation is becoming a serious problem and on how high the Fed might need to raise interest rates to stop it.
Regarding "Netanyahu's extremism" (Views, June 7): The gist of James Carroll's argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inflexible position on maintaining Jerusalem as a single, undivided city under Israeli sovereignty is not supported by the Israeli populace.
With the prospect of a government shutdown looming Friday, leaders of both parties publicly staked out seemingly inflexible positions while staff members worked in private on a possible compromise to finally pass the 2011 budget.
In part, the Administration's hard line has been fueled by Japan's inflexible position on improving access to Japanese markets for U.S. supercomputer makers.
