Clinton calls Netanyahu over Israel settlement plans
WASHINGTON, March 12 |
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday his government's latest settlement plans were a "deeply negative signal" for U.S.-Israeli relations, the State Department said.
Clinton telephoned Netanyahu and said Israel's plan to build 1,600 new settler homes in an area of the occupied West Bank it annexed to Jerusalem was "a deeply negative signal about Israel's approach to the bilateral relationship ... and had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told a news briefing.
(reporting by Andrew Quinn, editing by Eric Beech)
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sidrock23 wrote:
israel is no longer any use to the U.S this so called “special relationship” only benefits israel. we have been giving them billions in hard working tax payer american dollars and we get nothing in return. our relationship has now become a national security threat. it is time we end this relationship once and for all. israel must go
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