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Housing Spat

U.S. chides Israel over east
Jersualem announcement.

Jerusalem/JTA

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rime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu called on the
Israeli public to "not get
carried away" following harsh words
from the U.S. secretary of state over
plans to build new housing in east-
ern Jerusalem.
"We look at
this morning's
newspapers
and read all
kinds of com-
ments and
analyses,"
\ lit,
Netanyahu
Benjamin
said last week.
Netanyahu
"First of all, I
suggest that we
not get carried away — and that we
calm down.
"We know how to deal with these
situations —
with equanim-
ity, responsibly
and seriously.
There was a
regrettable
incident that
was done in all
innocence and
Joe Biden
was hurtful
and which certainly should not have
occurred."
Netanyahu also appointed a com-
mittee to study the chain of events
leading up to
the announce-
ment of the
approval of
1,600 housing
units in the
ultra-Orthodox,
east Jerusalem
Hillary Clinton
neighbor-
hood of Ramat
Shlomo during a visit by U.S. Vice
President Joe Biden.
The committee also will estab-
lish guidelines for ministries and
municipalities to prevent similar
occurrences in the future.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton called the incident
"an insult to the United States!" Her
statement came after she scolded
Netanyahu in a 43-minute telephone
conversation.

Clinton told CNN later in the day
that U.S.-Israeli relations were not at
risk over the incident.
Also, the U.S. State Department
summoned Israel's U.S. Ambassador
Michael Oren for a meeting with
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
James Steinberg, who reprimanded
Oren and criticized Israel's actions.
Steinberg called on Israel to take
steps to gain the Palestinians' trust
so that U.S. special Mideast envoy
George Mitchell could begin indi-
rect talks between Israel and the
Palestinians.
Netanyahu had apologized to
Biden for the incident and the vice
president accepted the apology.
The Palestinian Authority report-
edly has said that it will not resume
any kind of talks with Israel, includ-
ing the agreed-upon proximity talks,
unless Mitchell brings a promise
that Israel will cancel the housing
plan for eastern Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is not part of the 10-
month West Bank building freeze
set by Netanyahu at the end of
November. Netanyahu has decried
the timing of the announcement of
the Ramat Shlomo approval, but has
not said that it should be canceled.
Final approval reportedly will take
another year and building will not
commence for several years, accord-
ing to reports.
A Republican leader, a Democratic
Jewish congresswoman and the Anti-
Defamation League criticized the
Obama administration's continuing
rebukes of Israel.
U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev.,
and the ADL described the State
Department's tough criticism of
Netanyahu as an "overreaction"
— Berkley said it was an "irrespon-
sible overreaction" and the ADL said
it was a "gross overreaction!'
A spokesman for Rep. John
Boehner, R-Ohio, the U.S. House of
Representatives minority leader,
told Commentary magazine that "the
tone and substance we are seeing
emerge as a pattern for this admin-
istration are both disappointing and
of great concern!'
Israeli officials thought that put
the matter to rest, but last Friday,
P.J. Crowley, the State Department

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