STEVE INSKEEP, Host: So that's the view from Washington. Now let's get some reaction from the Middle East and NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro.</s>LOURDES GARCIA: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, NPR News, Jerusalem.
In Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Obama administration's failure to persuade Israel to agree to a moratorium on settlement building in the occupied West Bank met mixed reaction.