{"id":463217,"date":"2010-03-23T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80172"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:20:39","slug":"settlement-construction-approved-right-before-obama-netanyahu-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463217","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Construction Approved Right Before Obama-Netanyahu Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Israelis&#8217; announcement of new settlement construction in Jerusalem during Vice President Biden&#8217;s Israel trip was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/86569-clinton-says-israel-announcement-insulting-to-the-united-states\">insulting<\/a>,&#8221; what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1158417.html\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Jerusalem municipality has given final approval to a group of settlers construct 20 apartments in a controversial hotel in East Jerusalem, Haaretz learned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington smoothing over ties with the United States over the latest settlement-related tensions, and hours before the premier was to meet with President Barack Obama in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-80172\"><\/span>Apparently Netanyahu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80058\/netanyahu-to-aipac-jerusalem-is-not-a-settlement\">fiery speech<\/a> last night was only a prologue of how disinterested the Israeli PM is in mending fences with the Obama administration. Marc Lynch of George Washington University <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/abuaardvark\/statuses\/10944095754\">tweets<\/a> that Obama should cancel his meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, scheduled to begin in just a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Israelis&#8217; announcement of new settlement construction in Jerusalem during Vice President Biden&#8217;s Israel trip was &#8220;insulting,&#8221; what&#8217;s this? The Jerusalem municipality has given final approval to a group of settlers construct 20 apartments in a controversial hotel in East Jerusalem, Haaretz learned on Tuesday. The announcement comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was [&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-463217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463217","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=463217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}