U.S. Admits Israel Is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime — Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Glenn Greenwald was published by The Intercept on October 6, 2016.

 

In response to this announcement, the U.S. State Department yesterday issued an unusually harsh denunciation of Israel’s actions. ‘We strongly condemn the Israeli government’s recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank,’ it began. It suggested Netanyahu has been publicly lying, noting that the ‘approval contradicts previous public statements by the government of Israel that it had no intention of creating new settlements.’

 

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