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By Micah Halpern
Wednesday November 17, 2010 I've Been Thinking: The White House and most of the Western press were excited about Israel's decision to halt settlement activity in the West Bank for 90 days - but the celebration may be premature. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu convinced his cabinet to support the proposal with several conditions - but he did it with only a slim majority. Israel wants the proposal in writing from the White House. Israel is saying that they need the terms that Netanyahu and Secretary of State Clinton ironed out in NYC last Thursday during their 7.5 hour long meeting on paper. Israel will not make the decision to stop building unless the agreement is put in a letter signed either by the President or someone else of import in the White House. The White House is reluctant to put this agreement in writing. The White House finds the part about not ever again asking Israel to freeze settlement activity particularly problematic. So now we wait. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=halpern%2C+micah 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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