Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Hillary Clinton: "I want to see both sides begin as soon as possible in negotiations" US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged the Israelis and Palestinians to restart talks "as soon as possible".She was speaking after meeting Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, in a new US drive to restart the region's peace process. Palestinians said Israel must freeze settlement building in the occupied territories before talks can resume. But Mr Netanyahu said this was a "pretext and an obstacle" to prevent the renewal of negotiations. At Saturday night's news conference with America's top diplomat, the Israeli premier called for the talks to restart "immediately". He said the Palestinians had never before put forward a precondition for peace talks linked to the settlements issue. ANALYSIS By Jeremy Bowen, Middle East editor Making peace in the Middle East is a top foreign policy priority for President Obama, but in his first nine months in office he has had a crash course in the reasons why every attempt to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians has failed.[Read more...]