The United States issued Israel an ultimatum this week: Announce new settlement construction and Washington won't veto a French-sponsored UN Security Council resolution declaring West Bank settlements illegal, the Times of Israel website reports today (October 7, 2015).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls by senior ministers for construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank in response to an increase in Palestinian terrorism, at a meeting of his security cabinet on October 5.
That was because the Obama administration had warned Netanyahu against announcing new construction over the Green Line in response to the uptick in terrorism, Channel 2 reported yesterday.
In March, the Obama administration said it would re-evaluate its automatic-veto policy at the UN, as a result of Netanyahu's assertion in a pre-election interview that there would be no Palestinian state as long as he remained Israeli prime minister.
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