Israel Accuses US Of Backing European Settlement Backlash

[Purveyor]

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Tthe newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, quoted unnamed Israeli diplomats as saying the outcry could not have occurred without the complicity of the Obama administration, which has profound differences with Mr Netanyahu over settlements.

“We would not be mistaken to say that Europe was acting with Washington’s encouragement,” the paper’s commentator, Shimon Shiffer wrote. “The White House authorised Europe to pounce on the Netanyahu government and to punish it.”

One Israeli official told the Daily Telegraph that while the US was unlikely to have ordered such a move, it may have signalled approval.

“It’s more likely that they [the Americans] have been informed and have not raised any objection, but also showed some understanding and maybe even more,” he said. “There’s probably an understanding between the US and the Europeans that this is the right thing to do at this point.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9722259/Israel-accuses-US-of-backing-European-settlement-backlash.html

[The Magistrate]

1. This Is Getting To Be Like Watching A Suicide In Slow Motion, Sir

Authorizing the settlement expansion was a serious political and diplomatic error.

[bunnies]

2. One can only hope.

What the hell did they expect? flowers?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Israel accuses US of using common sense

for a change.