U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried Wednesday to steady wavering peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, amid visible cracks in the 3-month-old negotiations.
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned this week of growing tensions in the closed-door discussions between their negotiators, who have taken public potshots at each other in recent days.
Speaking before a three-hour session with Kerry on Wednesday morning, Netanyahu accused the Palestinians of "continuing to create artificial crises, continuing to . . . run away from the historic decisions that are needed to make a genuine peace."