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Israeli envoy sees ‘historic crisis’ with United States
The remarks, also carried by other Israeli media, appeared to refer to US pressure in 1975 for an Israeli redeployment in the Egyptian Sinai, occupied by Israel since the 1967 war and the site of renewed fighting in 1973.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment. An Israeli plan to build 1,600 more homes for Jews in West Bank land annexed to Jerusalem was announced during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden aimed at ushering in indirect peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
Using unusually blunt language, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israel’s behavior “insulting.” But in a CNN interview on Friday, she said bilateral ties were “not at risk. I mean, our relationship is durable and strong.” Netanyahu voiced regret on Sunday for what he described as bureaucratic happenstance. “We know how to deal with these situations -- with equanimity, responsibly and seriously,” he said.
Settlement construction
Israeli media reported that Clinton, in a telephone call to Netanyahu on Friday, demanded he reverse the decision to construct the settler homes at Ramat Shlomo.
A spokesman for Netanyahu declined to comment. Palestinian officials have said indirect peace talks, which they agreed last week to hold with Israel under US mediation, could not begin unless the settlement project was canceled. Scrapping the construction could destabilize Netanyahu’s governing coalition, dominated by pro-settler parties, including his own.
During his visit to Israel, Biden steered clear of any public demand of Israel to cancel the project. He termed “significant” assurances from Netanyahu that building at the site, a religious settlement, would not start for years. In Washington, the influential pro-Israel lobbying group, AIPAC, weighed in with a statement that called on the White House to take immediate steps to defuse tension with Israel.
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