Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday ahead of an appearance at the annual conference of the pro-Israeli government lobby AIPAC. Clinton is also scheduled to speak. Back on the West Bank, Palestinian lawmaker and physician Mustafa Barghouthi said Netanyahu is deliberately undermining any remote prospects for peace.

Mustafa Barghouthi: “Today Netanyahu did two major provocations. First of all, his army executed four young Palestinian civilians for no reason. They killed them in cold blood and with high-velocity bullets. And second, he declared that he’s going to continue settlement activities in East Jerusalem and in other parts of the Occupied Territories. This is a clear-cut provocation. His aim is to destroy any possibility for peace, any possibility for a Palestinian state and any possibility for a solution based on two-state solution.”