All Journal Posts Tagged 'natural growth' (8)

Netanyahu-Mitchell meeting canceled over settlement spat

Following the declaration by a State Department official that the US demand to stop settlements extends to east Jerusalem, a long-planned meeting of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Barack Obama's Mideast envoy George Mitchell has been canceled. According to diplomatic officials, the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 7:30pm — 8 Comments

US: Jewish breeding, building must end in Jerusalem too

Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are included in the US demand that Israel halt "settlement" construction, including for natural growth, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told The Jerusalem Post during a press briefing on Monday. "We're talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line," he said, referring to neighborhoods in Jerusal… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 8:30am — 16 Comments

Mitchell: Jews in Judea must stop having babies

George Mitchell said the United States continues to demand that Israel halt "natural growth" of settlements. And that doesn't mean just no no new houses, apartments, schools or kindergartens. That means no new babies. In a press briefing Tuesday at the State Department, the Obama administration's special envoy to the Middle East called "highly inaccurate" an Israeli newspaper report that the Obama administration would allow "natural growth" of settlements. Mitchell, of Leb… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 19, 2009 at 2:30pm — 10 Comments

Former Minister Arens: Build in Judea and Samaria

Former Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens (Likud) is not inclined to give in to American pressure on Israel to "stop natural growth." On the contrary, he says: “We must strengthen the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria even beyond their natural growth rates.” The quiet former Technion professor of aeronautical engineering is not impressed by U.S. President Barack Obama’s pressure tactics. “We're not used to receiving orders from others," he told Arutz-7's Hebrew… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 6, 2009 at 8:30pm — 8 Comments

MK Katz: Americans must confront "anti-semitic" Obama policies

“Let’s not mince words,” says Knesset Member Yaakov Katz, head of the National Union party, a right wing party not in the government coalition. “The Obama-Clinton ‘no natural growth’ policy for 650,000 Jews in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem is nothing less than anti-Semitism.” Speaking Wednesday with Israel National Radio, Katz called on American Christians and Jews to get tough with President Obama and te… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 3, 2009 at 5:53pm — 14 Comments

US denies intent to abandon Israel at UN

US State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Monday that, despite a report in the New York Times, the US government would continue to ensure that Israel received fair treatment in the United Nations. "As you know, we've long worked to ensure that Israel is treated fairly at the United Nations. That will continue. And as you know, Israel is a close friend and ally. And we remain committed to its security." But what constitutes "fair" is open to interpretation, and the vei… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 2, 2009 at 2:25pm — 3 Comments

Obama rolls out new attitude to Israel: "tough love"

Although President Barack Hussein Obama said that "I don't think we have to change strong support for Israel," he added that "Part of being a good friend is being honest, and I think there have been times where we are not as honest as we should be about the fact that the current direction, the current trajectory in the region is profoundly negative, not only for Israeli interests but also US interests. And that's part of a new dialogue that I'd like to see encouraged in the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 2, 2009 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments

Is Obama looking for a fight over "natural growth"?

"A 'settlement freeze' would not help Palestinians face today's problems or prepare for tomorrow's challenges," Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser under former US president George Bush, wrote in April in The Washington Post. "The demand for a freeze would have only one quick effect: to create immediate tension between the United States and Israel's new government," he wrote. "That may be precisely why some propose it, but it is also why the Obama administ… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on May 28, 2009 at 8:09am — 17 Comments

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