Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Sunday night – outlining his vision of how to achieve peace in the Middle East – was never going to be a universal crowd-pleaser.

For some, his endorsement of a Palestinian state represented a shocking abdication of responsibility by the man who has long been the standard-bearer of the Israeli right. For others, the speech was too little, too late – a grudging, hesitant acceptance of the inevitable, and one that was cloaked in so many "ifs" and "buts" that it rendered the prime minister's policy shift almost worthless.