An anonymous Israeli official has claimed that Europe’s stern reaction to Israel’s decision to bisect the West Bank with a controversial new settlement project was really a US decision.
“The European move is essentially an American move,” one official said, according to Ynet News. “The Brits asked the Americans how to act.”
Israel last week authorized new settlement construction in the controversial area of East Jerusalem known as E1 in a punitive attempt to nullify a contiguous Palestinian state following the successful UN-bid for implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The announcement drew criticism for deliberately breaking the contiguity of the West Bank with the aim to prevent the viability of a Palestinian state. In response, many European countries summoned Israeli ambassadors in an official protest against the E1 settlement, although they pledged not to sanction Israel.
“Nevertheless, if there is no reversal of the decision that has been announced, we will want to consider what further steps European countries should take,” said British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
“The Europeans got the green light to respond with extreme measures and the US in the meantime decided not to impose economic sanctions on the Palestinians in response to their UN bid,” the anonymous official claims. “The Americans decided to bolster Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) and push for a resumption of peace talks.”
The White House has denied these accusations, however, with National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor telling POLITICO it “isn’t accurate.”
Lets put things into prospective.., U.S always have said that U.S and Israeli relation is unbreakable,
2-that U.S will defend Israel no matter what. 3-U.S Have always vetoed the UN condemnation of Israel war crimes among others, and U.S prove to the world that U.S is not willing to recognize a Palestinians state as U.S voted against such voting at UN November 6, 2012. 4-U.S and Israel will benefit from a one state and for Palestinians to be under the rule of Israel rather then for U.S and Israel accepting defeat and having another Arab neighbor as Israel hates Arabs no matter what. in many occasions Israel crying that: Israel is serounded by hostile Arab neighbors and Iran among others are the enemy of Israel. So goes for U.S. U.S is always have marked others as its enemy not considering the fact that it is the U.S unjust policies, or if you will, empire foreign policies which have created these "called" enemies.
At the same time one needs to remember that since Balkan war US and EU are cooperating militarily, economically always when it comes to dividing the world among each other, this also true regarding Israel as a one state so is true with Libya and now Syrian war, otherwise non of these wars would be winnable by either NATO or U.S militarism regime alone. The learned their lessons from Vietnam.
"IF" the Americans have told Britain and France to act that way then the Israelies have much more to worry about than they think!
It means that Obama is at the end of his tether, and we could see the US make a binding Security council resolution against Israel!
Israel is the asylum!
This is the problem with our "special relationship" with Tel Aviv. The zionisti don't just expect us to adopt crazy foreign policies of our own. They expect us to impose these crazy foreign policies on countries with which we've been allied far longer than we've been allied with the zionisti themselves.
Considering that Europe and the US has never seen eye to eye on the Palestinian issue (US of course supporting Israel no matter what and Europe basically pro-Palestinian to the core) it is rather laughable either that Europe would take queues from the US on the matter (ok, the UK excluded) or that the US would order such a move even if they could.
This info is rather a sign of Israeli paranoia going completely off the scale.
So now the Europeans and Americvans have to justify their action before Israel. Soon we will all be Israel's slaves.
Netanyahu would tather steal the money than build new settleme4nts. He'll let the world 'stop' him from doing that. But those taxes ….they're gone.
And intresting thought, lets see what happens first; Iran gets the bomb or Israel builds 3000 more homes in the west bank and east jerUSAlem!
bibi pokes his finger in obammer's eye, obammer reacts, bibi becomes anonymus whiner. ha ha ha ha ha