A government official announced that 1600 housing units would be built in a Jewish neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. He did it without any communication with the PM office so Netanyahu was embarrassed and Bidden took it as a personal insult. He showed his ire by making Netanyahu wait for over an hour and let loose with a verbal display only heard in diplomatic circles when a child is killed in the street on camera by a dancing crowd. Netanyahu apologized and that should have been it, but Obama and Clinton had to make a huge deal over it in order to 'put Israel in it's place'.
The units in question were not something new and had been in the works for years (Jerusalem construction takes years to approve) and Israel has made itself very clear that the building freeze in the west bank is not in Jerusalem. In addition, the neighborhood is not a settlement or deep in an Arab neighborhood but in a 55 year old, large, thriving neighborhood. But the US wants what the US wants and screw anyone else. The US makes a deal with you and the deal only lasts as long as the US wants. Obama's been doing that a lot and he's really damaging US relations with its allies. But the US has done this in the past and I guess it's not on his "bad habits to change" list. So there's Israel's mistake in this. Pissing off Bidden and his bosses. -- Michael Dinowitz On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Several of those articles mention Israel's mistakes. > > Did they make a mistake recently? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313746 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
