In case you missed it, George Mitchell resigned yesterday, Friday, May 13. He was most recently Obama’s “Special Envoy for Middle East Peace” or some such nonsense. He is a former Senator from Maine. Word on the street here (in Maine) is that he resigned in order to spend more time with his two elementary-school-aged children (the man is something like seventy). Word on the Twitter street is that his resignation is a symbol of American withdrawal from the current peace process strategy, which could actually be an interesting admission of its ineffectiveness. Anyway. That’s all.

Oh, and of course, Netanyahu is playing the blame game and putting none of it on his own administration.

Netanyahu expressed his disappointment in Mitchell’s decision to quit, and in the Palestinians’ refusal to attend talks that Mitchell worked so hard to advance. The prime minister added that the Palestinians “set countless preconditions that made [Mitchell's] work difficult, and at the end of the process even united with Hamas.”