Posted on 09/04/2009 12:15:04 PM PDT by steven33442
WASHINGTON – Alarmed by Israeli plans to build new housing units in settlements and dimming prospects for American peace efforts, the Obama administration on Friday put out a rare and harsh public rebuke of its main Mideast ally. The White House said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement plans were "inconsistent" with commitments the Jewish state has made previously and harmful to U.S. attempts to lay the groundwork for a resumption in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. "United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement expansion and we urge that it stop," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. "We are working to create a climate in which negotiations can take place, and such actions make it harder to create such a climate." Netanyahu's aides, speaking on condition of anonymity Friday because the plans have not been formally announced, said any Israeli settlement freeze would not halt building the new units and or block completion of some 2,500 others currently under construction. They also said the freeze would not include east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to make their future capital. The unusually blunt White House criticism reflected the administration's growing frustration with Netanyahu, whose decision would approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before considering even a temporary freeze in construction, as President Barack Obama has requested.
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What is it about "NO" that you don't understand?
Hey Obama,
Why don’t you just send your Tsar Van Jones to the Middle East so he can negotiate the Israelis out of East Jerusalem, and make it a “Jew-Free Zone”?
Why are we negotiating for the Israeli’s who are big enough to negotiate for themselves.
Why dont we just bug out and let them deal with it themselves. It is realy none of our business.
“Why are we negotiating for the Israeli’s who are big enough to negotiate for themselves”
It’s quite obvious that Obama is negotiating against the Israelis, not for them.
go away hussein
The most racist, antiJewish, antiChristian, antiAmerican,
antiConstitutional, untransparent, overcorrupt,
proterrorist, antiPatriot, lobbyist- and kickback-ridden, Adminstration EVER.
Actually Obama criticized Isreal ... I'm more "US" than he is and I say Isreal can settle where they want. ... So there! Pghpghpghpgh!
“Mack Daddy the Zebra” has such a giant ego that his brain can not understand any type of questioning to anything that he says or does.
Nobody within his merry band of thieves and liars has the nerve to tell him what a joke he is to the rest of the world leaders and that they do not ever beleive a word he speaks, ever.
Makes one wonder why does he pick only on the Israelis?
He wants to bring peace to the area?
Two points to make. Only one side wishes to make peace. the other side sends their kids to commit suicide.
Secondly, every time this administration opens their mouths about settlements, Abbas quickly parrots what they say as an excuse not to negotiate peace. And HE thinks he will bring change to the world? Let get serious here!
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