Israel ‘To Delay Settlement Starts For Obama Trip’

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Friday, March 1, 2013 6:59 EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned settler housing tenders being issued for the West Bank and east Jerusalem when US President Barack Obama visits this month, a daily said Friday.

Netanyahu had told officials the “suspension” did not amount to a freeze in settlement construction, and that it would only be in place up until the end of Obama’s trip to avoid “embarrassing” leaders, Maariv newspaper reported.

In March 2010, Israel sparked the ire of the US administration by announcing, during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden, that 1,600 new homes would be built in the east Jerusalem quarter of Ramat Shlomo.

“According to instructions provided by the prime minister’s office to the appropriate officials in the ministries of defence and housing, no new tenders for housing will be issued for these areas in the coming weeks,” said Maariv.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/01/israel-to-delay-settlement-starts-for-obama-trip/

[Tempest]

1. Breathtakingly open about their defiance

Typical postering of a bully.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. How very thoughtful of them.

Of course once Air Force One's wheels are off the tarmac and its nose pointed to Washington on the return trip, it will be back to business as usual as no one will be embarrassed any more by illegal settlement building/expansion.

[RedstDem]

3. seems yahoo hasn't a drop of humanity in his whole body

that turd reminds me of chaney.....

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. Conservatives of a feather...