T. Belman. The US is totally committed to the TSS and the Iran deal, regardless of what Israel wants. It opposes Israel on such existential issues. Thus, the US is our enemy, not our friend.
It is impossible to avert “every single house” built in the West Bank, US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides explains to Peace Now.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST
US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
West Bank settlement growth is “infuriating” but not every settler home can be blocked, said US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, explaining however that he had worked to halt the advancement of the controversial E1 project.
“We can’t do stupid things that impede us for a two-state solution,” Nides told the left-wing group Americans for Peace Now during a virtual event on Tuesday. “We can’t have the Israelis doing settlement growth in east Jerusalem or the West Bank. I’m a bit of a nag on this, including the idea of settlement growth – which infuriates me, when they do things – just infuriates the situation, both in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
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