Posturing and speechifying

A Republican invitation for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race over who will be the first to lay out a new proposal to reopen the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/middleeast/21prexy.html?_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

Two journalists read the above article and came up with two different takes. First, Huffington Post's Steve Clemons writes:

Helene Cooper of the New York Times has published a great what's up story on the new behind the scenes scramble by the Obama administration, Prime Minister Netanyahu and various Palestinian officials to act as if they have some plan to move the peace process forward -- when in fact, most of it is insincere posturing and speechifying designed to pour concrete on what has thus far been failure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/israel-palestine-plate-he_b_852166.html

I read the New York Times article and fail to see where Ms. Cooper wrote about Palestinian officials having some plan to move the peace process forward. She focused soely on the US and Israel.

Leo Rennert in American Thinker agrees that Abbas is conspicuiusly absent from Ms. Cooper's article.

As I picked up my copy of the April 21 edition of the New York Times, my eyes caught sight of an all-caps headline atop the main front-page story, "DIPLOMATIC RACE OVER PEACE PLAN FOR MIDDLE EAST."
My first thought was that this really could be a newsworthy development -- a race between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas to be the first to lay out a substantive peace proposal.
But alas, it was not to be, as the sub-head made clear: "OBAMA VS. NETANYAHU."
...But conspicuously missing from Cooper's "scoop" is the Palestinian side of the peace-process equation. No mention whatsoever of Mahmoud Abbas. If a preview piece about new moves to resume serious negotiations warrants top front-page placement, one would have expected that the Times also might show some curiosity about the peace parameters of Mahmoud Abbas.
Read full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/ny_times_mindset_peace_hinges.html