US Ambassador to Walla !: We made it clear to Israel that we oppose construction in the settlements
U.S. Ambassador Tom Mobids made the remarks following a Department of Defense announcement on advancing the planning and construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank.
According to an Israeli official, it was decided to move the move forward as much as possible in order to profit between it and a visit to Biden, where "senior government officials are allergic to construction in the settlements."
Lightning Ravid
06/05/2022
Friday, 06 May 2022, 14:48 Updated: 15:21
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The Revava settlement (Photo: Reuven Castro)
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides told Walla Walla today (Friday) that the Biden administration has made it clear to Israel several times in the past week that it strongly opposes all settlement construction and has asked not to promote new construction in the settlements. News
:
The Ministry of Defense announced
today that next week the planning and construction of 4,000 new housing units in settlements in the West Bank will be approved
.
Who threatened to resign from the coalition if new construction was not approved in the settlements.
The building permit comes against the background of preparations for US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel at the end of June.
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"We were clear."
Mobile (Photo: AP)
Burned in the past.
Biden, last week (Photo: Reuters, REUTERS / Al Drago)
Behind the scenes:
A senior Israeli official said that in the past two weeks there had been contacts between the Prime Minister's Office and the Secretary of Defense and the US ambassador and other senior officials in the Biden
administration regarding the convening of the Supreme Planning Council approving construction in the settlements.
The Americans vehemently opposed the move, saying the move would end after Ramadan
. To do so at as large a time gap as possible from President Biden's planned visit
.
"Senior Biden government officials are allergic to settlement construction. President Biden has been personally burned by the issue and his immediate staff is also strongly opposed to the settlements and they have told us not to build," an Israeli official said.
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