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Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Wed Jan 25, 2017, 01:06 PM Jan 2017

New settlement homes are just a taste, Netanyahu tells MKs

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-settlement-homes-are-just-a-taste-netanyahu-tells-mks/

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the 2,500 new West Bank settlement homes approved a day earlier were just a “taste” of things to come now that Barack Obama is no longer in the White House, and said he would discuss the issue with US President Donald Trump.

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But, the prime minister said, “We are leaving the period. This building [approval] was a taste. We are going to be doing many things differently from now on,” he said.

The US is no longer the bad cop for his pro-apartheid coalition members.