By CLIFFORD D. MAY, Scripps Howard News Service Because the Obama administration is keen to restart negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has responded by demanding more — as a pre-condition, before he will talk. Just…
By HAROLD BRACKMAN , THE JERUSALEM POST After the Obama administration voiced “dismay” earlier this month at the decision by the Jerusalem municipality to approve 900 new housing units in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, straddling the Green Line, former housing minister Meir Sheetrit quipped that the White House seems to think that Jerusalem has…
By Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason.Thursday’s headlines told the tale. The day after Netanyahu bowed to US pressure and announced a total freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months, Yediot Ahronot reported that the Obama administration…