Posted on 03/13/2010 9:13:56 PM PST by myknowledge
The furor triggered by the announcement during US Vice President Joe Biden’s trip last week of plans to build 1,600 housing units in northeastern Jerusalem continued to reverberate over the weekend, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling the move “insulting” and the new EU foreign policy chief hinting Europe could use trade ties as leverage against Israel.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, apparently taken aback by Clinton’s sharp criticism, called a meeting of his inner cabinet on Saturday night to discuss the continuing fallout and formulate a response.
Following that meeting, Netanyahu put out a statement late Saturday night saying he would set up a committee headed by the director-general of his office, Eyal Gabai, to investigate the unfolding of events during the Biden visit and come up with regulations to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. The committee will also include the directors-general of the Interior Ministry, the Construction and Housing Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality.
Prior to the inner cabinet meeting, Netanyahu spoke to two of Israel’s closest allies in Europe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and said he realized that the announcement of the project during Biden’s visit was a mishap, but that Jerusalem had apologized to Biden and coordinated with him the statement on the matter released on Thursday morning by the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Netanyahu spoke to two of Israel’s closest allies in Europe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Would be interesting to evesdrop, bet there were some interesting comments about the leadership of the world's sole superpower. Interesting that Israel has to seek the advice of allies about US actions.
I don’t. I question the timing of the announcement.
Should the Arab and Muslim world also be nicer being the US monies that are going to that side of the fence?
http://us.oneworld.net/article/how-has-egypt-spent-50-billion-us-aid
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