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Zitat des Tages:

  I think that the sense amongst the Israeli delegation [Prime Minister Netanyahu et.al.] coming back from D.C. right now [march 2010] is that they fell into a trap. The general sense in Israel right now is that the prime minister was sorely humiliated by President Obama. There is quite a degree of amazement the way he was treated. I think it's fair to say that neither the prime minister nor his defense minister, Ehud Barak, were aware of the kind of reception that they were greeted with at the White House. The reason is that they did not expect the Obama administration to insist on a freeze of all activities in East Jerusalem, including those Jewish neighborhoods built decades ago, which, as it was understood with both Presidents Clinton and Bush, would remain part of Israel in any future peace settlement.

Ehud Yaari
(Kommentator auf Channel 2, israelisches Fernsehen. Zur israelischen Reaktion auf die kühle Art, wie Premierminister Netanyahu in Washington empfangen wurde, nachdem kurz zuvor in Israel der Bau von 1600 Häusern angekündigt worden war.)