Posted on 10/27/2011 11:45:31 AM PDT by Nachum
US Ambassador tells Yishai freeze will help counter Palestinian UN bid; interior minister: No Israeli gov't has frozen settlements, nor will we.
Israel denied a request by the United States on Thursday to temporarily freeze settlement construction in order to promote peace talks with the Palestinians.
In a meeting with Interior Minister Eli Yishai, US Ambassador Dan Shapiro requested the freeze - a repeated Palestinian precondition for negotiations - in order to bolster political goodwill as the US tries to counter Palestinian efforts to seek full UN membership.
Shapiro promised that the United States would veto such efforts regardless of Israel's decision on settlements.
According to Army Radio, Yishai replied that no Israeli government had given in to the request to freeze settlements in the past, and that there was no reason for the current government to do so now.
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Good for Israel. There has never in history been a Palistine nation and Israel doesn’t need to give them one now.
God gave Israel that land and obama has no business telling them what to do with it.
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