Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Obama today in what was supposed to have been an effort to repair the breach in relations between the U.S. and Israel over the Israeli government's continuing support for the creation of settlements on Palestinian land. Netanyahu, however, made it clear from the start that the conference would not be productive and would be another futile exercise. He did that by simultaneously releasing news that more settlements in East Jerusalem have been approved.
Eitan Cabel, an Israeli legislator in Netanyahu's own labor party, contends that, "Netanyahu decided to spit into Obama's eye, this time from up close. He and his pyromaniac ministers insist on setting the Middle East ablaze."
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