Afterward, she said some ministers seemed unaware of the extent of the Israeli proposal on settlements, which she said "holds the promise of moving a step closer to a two-state solution".
Arab officials expressed alarm that the United States seemed to be easing pressure on Israel after Mrs. Clinton said in Jerusalem on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal of restrained settlement building was better than anything previous Israeli governments had offered.
The National Park Service received the proposal as part of settlement talks with the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Associationn, which filed a lawsuit in December seeking to overturn the Clinton administration's ban last year on recreational snowmobiling to reduce pollution and noise.
Another proposal during earlier rounds of settlement talks was requiring the Microsoft board to create an independent oversight board that would report to the Justice Department.
The hearing came as executives of Napster disclosed for the first time the nature of settlement proposals they have made to record companies, suggesting that the rapidly growing start-up company's service may cease to be free to users.
And when the time came to begin serious discussion of settlement proposals, the mediator, Richard A. Posner, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, made it clear he preferred to deal with just one party, the Justice Department, leaving the states to fester and fret.
His intervention comes just a day after David Cameron revealed a draft proposal for a settlement with the EU ahead of the in/out referendum expected in June.
"The Lower East Side was a place of settlement.
Iterative optimisation of settlement site and settlement design.
Beadle's "irrepressible ingenuity led to an incredible succession of proposals for a settlement", Wilson recalled, but these talks also failed.
