Netanyahu's Palestinian backtrack fails to mollify US: analysts

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to tone down anti-Palestinian rhetoric in order to mend ties with a furious White House but analysts say he will have to do more. The White House has warned that it might withdraw crucial diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, even as Netanyahu denied he had ruled out the creation of a Palestinian state. On Monday, the day before he was reelected, Netanyahu was asked if it were true that there would be no Palestinian state were he t