US green light to Israeli settlements
A cable from the US Embassy in Paris just released by WikiLeaks reveals that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak had told French officials in Paris on 15 June 2009 that the Israelis had a "secret accord" with the US to continue the "natural growth" of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This was only days after US President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, in which he said that the US did not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris that "there was a single door [in the peace process] and that it was imperative to move through it now." French diplomats said Sarkozy had three things to say to Netanyahu: "you think you have time, but you do not"; "you think you have an alternative solution, but you do not"; and "you think you are stronger than the Palestinians, but you are not". http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2009/06/09PARIS827.html
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