Netanyahu and Obama. Photo: Jim Young/ Reuters
Obama: ‘Israel Doesn’t Know What Its Best Interests Are’ -- Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Shortly after the United Nations General Assembly voted in late November to upgrade the status of the Palestinians, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that it would advance plans to establish a settlement in an area of the West Bank known as E-1, and that it would build 3,000 additional housing units in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
A large settlement in E-1, an empty zone between Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement city of Maaleh Adumim, would make the goal of politically moderate Palestinians -- the creation of a geographically contiguous state -- much harder to achieve.
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My Comment: Some Israelis are not amused with this interference.
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