U.S. concerned over Israel's settlement activity: State Department

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:18pm EDT

U.S. concerned over Israel's settlement activity: State Department

The United States is deeply concerned about Israel's reported plans to build an additional 323 units in settlements in East Jerusalem on top of 770 units previously announced in the settlement of Gilo, the U.S. State Department said.

Such action by Israel "continues this pattern of provocative and counterproductive action," State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement on Wednesday.

Kirby called the settlement activity "corrosive to the cause of peace."

In addition to the plans for East Jerusalem and Gilo, Kirby cited plans for other units, including 531 in Ma’ale Adumim, 19 in Har Homa, 120 in Ramot, and 30 in Pisgat Ze’ev. He also noted a plan to legalize an outpost near Ramallah; and tenders for 42 units in Kiryat Arba.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-settlements-idUSKCN1081NW

[6chars]

1. settlement? suburb?

[Mosby]

2. building apartments is a provocation.

what a world we live in.

[6chars]

3. ther are other things the US is less concerned about

200 killed in suicide bombing in x middle eastern city
Erdogan arrests x thousand of y's
x young women enslaved while males killed
country x illegally acquires intercontinental missiles and writes death to y on them while firing them.

[ericson00]

4. I really hope the Clinton foreign policy is not like Obama's.

Obama's was very 'if we weren't so friendly with Israel, the Muslim world would love us,' and it flopped, miserably. It needs to end.

[Little Tich]

5. The US concerned? concerned enough to not do a single thing it seems...

I think that all the one-staters in this thread will have their wish come true...