{"id":421534,"date":"2010-03-12T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79157"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:04:03","slug":"clinton-losing-patience-with-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421534","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Losing Patience With Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78789\/biden-in-israel-condemns-east-jerusalem-housing-expansion\">hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem<\/a>. It&#8217;s widely seen as an insult.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2010\/03\/138304.htm\">let it be known<\/a> that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say she views the move as a breach of faith:<span id=\"more-79157\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Secretary Clinton also spoke this morning with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to reiterate the United States\u2019 strong objections to Tuesday\u2019s announcement, not just in terms of timing, but also in its substance; to make clear that the United States considers the announcement a deeply negative signal about Israel\u2019s approach to the bilateral relationship \u2013 and counter to the spirit of the Vice President\u2019s trip; and to reinforce that this action had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process, and in America\u2019s interests. The Secretary said she could not understand how this happened, particularly in light of the United States\u2019 strong commitment to Israel\u2019s security. And she made clear that the Israeli Government needed to demonstrate not just through words but through specific actions that they are committed to this relationship and to the peace process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s far harsher language than the Obama administration has been using to the Israelis lately. Clinton is <a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/03\/11\/exclusive_hillary_to_headline_aipac_conference\">headlining the AIPAC conference<\/a> later this month. We&#8217;ll see if she uses the same sort of candor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem. It&#8217;s widely seen as an insult. This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley let it be known that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}