U.S. supposedly gave Israel 6 months to freeze settlements
That’s the story I saw in Haaretz: It is kind of a four-cushion shot, to wit: Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, supposedly told the Lebanese government that the U.S. government recently gave the Israeli government a six-month deadline in which to freeze settlements, according to a Beirut newspaper. I have the same reaction I ...
That’s the story I saw in Haaretz: It is kind of a four-cushion shot, to wit: Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, supposedly told the Lebanese government that the U.S. government recently gave the Israeli government a six-month deadline in which to freeze settlements, according to a Beirut newspaper.
I have the same reaction I often do when reading hot stories in the British press: That’s interesting, if true.
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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