Top US officials stationed in Israel have taken it upon themselves to monitor Jewish construction in Jerusalem and other areas claimed by the Palestinian Arabs.
According to the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon, the US ambassador to Israel, the US consul general in Jerusalem and other officials demand regular updates from Israeli ministers associated with building committees.
As a result of that pressure, building permits for thousands of new housing units in Jerusalem have been held up indefinitely. Government and municipal officials have confirmed that there is an unofficial Jewish building freeze in Jerusalem because of the American pressure.
In related news, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday told London-based pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that Washington had guaranteed him there would be no «provocation» by Israel during the start of US-hosted indirect peace talks scheduled to take place next week.
The Palestinians view Jewish construction in most of Jerusalem as a provocation, and in response have refused to negotiate with Israel.
Source: Israeli Magazine, Israel Today.
My comment:
Lets talk about insults.
The Obama administration has earlier expressed that Jewish construction in East Jerusalem is an insult to the American government.
If the Israeli Ambassador in Washington had started to monitor commercial activity in the US Capital, it would not only have been condemned in public as an «insult». It would have been branded as spying.
It is nothing new that so-called US peace activists have been monitoring the Jewish state at different levels. They also have their collaborators within the Islamic movement, who work hard to demonize the Jewish state.
But when the US Government in particular starts to monitor building activity in a Jerusalem, this is nothing but a criminal activity. Working visa`s given to spies in the Obama Administration should be revoked, and these illegal workers should be sent home.
How can the present Israeli Government accept this kind of insults?
I guess this in another fresh example of the anti-Zionist pressure that is building up on Benjamin Netnayahu`s shoulders.
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