Were the British sanctions on Israeli settlements inevitable?

If the Israeli government is looking for anyone to blame for the sanctions against illegal settlements and settlers in the occupied West Bank announced this month by British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, it should look no further than the mirror. Miliband’s speech in the House of Commons was carefully crafted to focus on the issue at hand: Israeli settlements, their illegality, their role as a major obstacle to a peace agreement based on a two-state solution, violence by settlers, and the urgen