Clinton And Netanyahu Speak On Phone, Plan Face-To-Face Meeting Next Week

[Purveyor]

MOSCOW - Hoping to diffuse a fight between friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Thursday to meet face to face next week in Washington to confront an embarrassing dispute over Israeli land claims.

The Obama administration's special envoy for Mideast peace, George Mitchell, prepared to return to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Netanyahu called Clinton on Thursday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley declined to provide details of the conversation, which he described as the Israeli prime minister's response to Clinton's call last week in which she harshly criticized Israel's announcement of additional Jewish settlement housing in east Jerusalem.

"They discussed specific actions that might be taken to improve the atmosphere for progress toward peace," the department said in a statement released by Clinton's travelling party.

Crowley said U.S. officials will review Netanyahu's response and "continue our discussions with both sides to keep proximity talks moving forward."

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AP: http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/world/article/481545--clinton-and-netanyahu-speak-on-phone-plan-face-to-face-meeting-next-week

[MrModerate]

1. "embarassing dispute"? How about "bloody-minded idiocy"?

Fuck Netanyahu and the horse he rode in on.

If civilized Israelis can't chase the armageddon gang out of power, then they will be complicit in Israel's (and the world's) dire fate.

[xultar]

2. He had to call her today because Net's brother called Obama an anti-semite.

bad form.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. Brother in law, I believe.

Still embarrassing.

[xultar]

4. My bad.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. But Bibi still has it worse.

[applegrove]

5. I'm glad Clinton is secretary of state.

[Purveyor]

7. Me too... eom

[IndianaGreen]

8. We have seen this dance before, nothing will come of it!

Four years from now we are going to be right back to where we were four years ago.

Same old boring plot!