State Dept. Spokesman Speaks of "Extremists on All Sides"

For those seeking hints of American partiality to one side or the other as the direct Netanyahu-Abbas talks begin in Washington, yesterday’s daily State Department briefing provided several.
Asked by a reporter about the impact on the talks of the fatal terrorist attack and the intention of some Jews to resume construction, Crowley continued the questioner’s tit-for-tat tone and equated between the “extremists on all sides.”   
“We are gratified,” Crowley said, “that notwithstanding efforts by extremists on all sides to take actions that impede progress,” the talks will continue. (What extremist action was taken by Israel?)  “Hamas is a captive of the conflict.” 
Fatah and Hamas are simply playing the “good cop, bad cop” routine, and that they differ only as to how to destroy the Jewish State – after a Palestinian state is established (Fatah), or concurrently (Hamas).
Hamas ambushes Israeli citizens just because they are Israelis, and the State Department says there are "efforts by extremists on all sides".