By P. David Hornik
In the same week that President Barack Obama said it would “not [be] productive [for] the U.S. president [to be seen as] meddling in Iranian elections,” Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that “Everywhere people are born, people die, and we cannot accept a vision of stopping completely the settlements. We have to keep the natural growth.”
Clinton, for her part, “reiterated that the U.S. viewed a total settlement freeze as an ‘important and essential’ step toward achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
In other words, “natural growth”—whether or not the population of a settlement would, say, increase over the course of a year because fifty babies had been born within its confines—remained an issue on the table between the U.S. and Israel. Meanwhile, a poll found only 6% of Jewish Israelis saying the Obama administration was pro-Israeli and 50% saying it was more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. Read more ...
In the same week that President Barack Obama said it would “not [be] productive [for] the U.S. president [to be seen as] meddling in Iranian elections,” Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that “Everywhere people are born, people die, and we cannot accept a vision of stopping completely the settlements. We have to keep the natural growth.”
Clinton, for her part, “reiterated that the U.S. viewed a total settlement freeze as an ‘important and essential’ step toward achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
In other words, “natural growth”—whether or not the population of a settlement would, say, increase over the course of a year because fifty babies had been born within its confines—remained an issue on the table between the U.S. and Israel. Meanwhile, a poll found only 6% of Jewish Israelis saying the Obama administration was pro-Israeli and 50% saying it was more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. Read more ...
Source: FPM
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