It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make
mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s “
no new settlements”
position. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is bragging about Israel’s
latest victory over the US government as Israel continues to build
illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
In May President Obama read the Israelis the riot act, telling the
Israeli government that he was serious about ending the Israeli
conflict with the Palestinians and that a lasting peace agreement
required the Israeli government to abandon all construction of new
settlements in the occupied West Bank.
On November 10 Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, surrendered for his boss at the (L’articolo è disponibile previo sostegno)
