‘US won’t veto UN vote on settlements if Israel builds anew’

[geek tragedy]

The United States has reportedly issued Israel an ultimatum this week: announce new settlement construction and Washington won’t veto a Security Council resolution declaring West Bank settlements illegal.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls by senior ministers for construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank in response to an increase in Palestinian terrorism, at a meeting of his security cabinet on Monday.



That was because the Obama administration had warned Netanyahu against announcing new construction over the Green Line in response to the uptick in terrorism, Channel 2 reported Tuesday.

The report cited senior sources in the Israeli government as saying that the White House told Netanyahu that the US wouldn’t necessarily veto a French-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Security Council.

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We will not endanger our international support for some construction tender or for expanding construction in Itamar,” a senior source was quoted as saying.

Netanyahu reportedly told ministers from the pro-settlement Jewish Home party that new construction in the West Bank was liable to endanger Israeli settlers even more and complicate the situation between Israeli and Palestinians.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-wont-veto-un-vote-on-settlements-if-israel-builds-anew/

Netanyahu is feeling the squeeze.

[randys1]

1. Netanyahu and Cheney and Wolfowitz, Perle and so on are all very bad players.

They dont see life the same way we do.

Sociopaths, of course, psychopaths, maybe.

Add to that their political base, at least the christians here in USA, are convinced an invisible man from the sky is returning to Israel someday and they have to use YOUR sons and daughters to keep it safe for said return.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Please-pleeze-plu-eeeeeezzzzz call the USA's bluff, Bibi!