• President Abbas said Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech yesterday left “nothing we can build on,” and that he would continue the U.N. statehood push in the absence of a peace process. Therefore … . [Reuters/Haaretz]
• Contributing editor Jeff Goldberg reminds us that the Palestinians, not the Israelis, are the ones who get to wait out the clock. [Bloomberg View]
• Some Democrats are questioning even President Obama’s Mideast stance. This does not, however, including the Jewish head of the Democratic National Committee, and mainly includes anonymous people. [WP]
• Thomas Friedman has the solution to the impasse, in his Friedman-y way. [NYT]
• An official in Pakistan’s military intelligence expressly condoned the targeting of the Chabad house in the 2008 Mumbai massacre. [ProPublica]
• Dana Milbank watches Bibi with his daughter’s Israeli au pair. (It actually sorta works.) [WP]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.