This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's principled rejection of US President Barack Obama's bigoted demand that Israel bar Jews from building new homes and expanding existing ones in Judea and Samaria does not reflect his actual policy.
Construction and Housing Minister Ariel Attias let the cat out of the bag.
Attias said that the government has been barring Jews from building in the areas since it took office four months ago, in the hopes that by preemptively capitulating to US demands, the US will treat Israel better.
Apparently Bibi has been unable to stand firm against the enormous pressure put upon him by the Obama administration, after all. Interestingly enough, this comes at a time when Obama has lost his political capital with the majority of the American people.
Read the whole thing here.
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