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Biden publicly condemns Israeli settlement project
“Yesterday the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem undermines that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin ... profitable negotiations,” Biden said.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli cabinet minister apologized for what he termed “real embarrassment” caused to Biden by the news on Tuesday that Israel would erect the housing units in an area of the West Bank it annexed to the holy city.
Abbas called on Israel to reverse its decision, but in his remarks in Ramallah gave no indication that indirect peace talks, agreed by Palestinian and Israeli leaders after US mediation, would not proceed.
Biden said the United States would hold both sides accountable for any statements or actions “that inflame tensions or prejudice the outcome of talks, as this decision did.”
No date, venue or agenda has been set for the negotiations that would mark a revival of talks suspended since December 2008. The Arab League in Cairo, which last week endorsed a four-month framework for the talks, called an urgent meeting of a committee overseeing the process, for later on Wednesday.
Biden’s public remarks on the issue followed a written statement of condemnation that he issued on Tuesday.
Israel’s announcement of the project clouded a visit by the vice president that had been focused on reassuring Israelis that President Barack Obama was committed to their security in the face of a possible Iranian nuclear threat.
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