Laura Rozen reports that both the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are trying to climb down from the past week’s diplomatic acrimony. But the acrimony started when the Israelis announced an expansion of settlements in east Jerusalem, an act that broke faith with the Obama administration during More…
So the insult stands, apparently:
In the face of sharp American disapproval of an Israeli plan for an East Jerusalem building project, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected Monday any curbs on new Jewish settlements in and around Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, demonstrating the firm commitment to diplomacy that has More…
J Street, the progressive pro-Israel/pro-peace lobby group, has issued a statement urging both the Obama administration and the Israeli government to remember that they have a shared goal in “tackl[ing] a core issue at the heart of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians – the need to establish a More…
A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem. It’s widely seen as an insult.
This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley let it be known that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham More…
Just released from the Vice President:
I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem. The substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after spending much of 2009 pushing against the Obama administration’s call for a settlement freeze, has proposed a 10-month settlement freeze in the interest of what he called “meaningful negotiations to reach a historic peace agreement that would finally end the conflict between Israel More…
Maybe “blasts” was the wrong verb for my old headline on the White House’s response to Israel’s expansion of settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem. The White House appears to have done some editing.
When the White House press shop sent out its statement criticizing Israel this afternoon — I More…
Contrary to nearly a year of stern insistence from the Obama administration that Israel refrain from all growth in occupied Palestinian territory — an insistence that frayed with a recent comment by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the administration has tried to walk back — Israel More…
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice gave a speech in Israel yesterday urging that peace demands more than “lip service,” an unsubtle dig at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Augustinian approach. She singled out President Shimon Peres, a leading peace-processor, for praise:
“As President Peres always reminds us, being serious about
Laura Rozen goes through the tea leaves:
“We solved the matter of the settlements with the Americans,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Israeli daily Haaretz cites Zapatero.
“I cannot say more than that. If you are interested in hearing
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