Netanyahu To Settlers: I'm Fighting For You, But There Are International Constraints

[Purveyor]

Netanyahu tells settler leaders he is their 'greatest defender,' but his hands are tied by 'international' considerations.

By Barak Ravid | May 29, 2014 | 2:12 AM

Leaders of the Yesha Council of settlements met Wednesday evening with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him to bring an end to the months-long freeze on planning, construction, and marketing of West Bank and East Jerusalem housing.

According to sources that were present for the meeting, Netanyahu told the settlerment leaders that he has in fact been advancing their cause in recent months. "You have no shield greater than I," he said. "I fight for you."

"But there are international constraints and you know them," he said, according to a source present at the meeting. "Everyone tells me all the time that the peace process is stuck because of the settlements. I reply to them that that's not true and that the real reason is the [Palestinian] refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state."

Yesha heads told Netanyahu, according to sources at the meeting, that the last time tenders for construction in the settlements were published happened after the third round of releasing Palestinian prisoners in January. They added that the planning and construction committee of the West Bank civil administration has not convened in more than three months to discuss projects that are in different phases of completion. They said they have not been able to push forward plans to build public institutions such as schools or kindergartens.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. So one asshole met with a group of other

assholes and they had a group hug.

Pretty much sums it up.