Netanyahu stood up to Mitchell
In this report, it's told that George Mitchell tried to pressure the Israeli government to stop building in the Gilo neighborhood:
(IsraelNN.com) U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell reportedly asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, during one of their recent meetings, to freeze a construction project of dozens of housing units in Gilo. Netanyahu turned him down.And that's also the good thing about limited government, as they say. I'm glad he stood up to Mitchell's grave demands, and made clear it's unacceptable. More on this here.
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Netanyahu refused the U.S. request, explaining that the construction in Gilo, as in most places of the world, does not require government approval. He also explained that the neighborhood is “an integral part of Jerusalem.”
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