More than a year was wasted on this, causing, among other things, tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the Obama administration. With a lack of grace, Netanyahu finally agreed to a temporary freeze – due to expire at the end of September – and eventually the Palestinians, this time under US pressure, relented to open negotiations without an explicit Israeli assurance that the freeze would be continued.
米歇尔在这方面已经耗费了整整一年，并与其他因素一起导致了以色利的内塔尼亚胡政府和奥巴马当局之间的紧张关系。内塔尼亚胡政府最终也同意暂时冻结定居点建设——直到9月末——而巴勒斯坦人迫于美国压力，也同意在以方没有明确承诺停建定居点的情况下重开谈判。