Cold… cold… cold… burning up! What freeze? The AP is the only news outlet that claimed a “de facto freeze” on building in Jerusalem, and now the AP is effectively recanting that claim—but without issuing a correction or retraction. Funny, I couldn’t find that story a couple hours after it came out, either. Oops.
Smart power! Obama’s Syrian outreach is working really well. Turkey and Syria are now conducting annual joint military exercises. Oh, and Turkey has turned increasingly anti-Israel. Why, it’s almost as if they sense that Obama is turning his back on Israel. But no. The relationship is rock-solid.
The objective media: In this very long article about the new, less lethal ways Israeli soldiers are dealing with Palestinian “protesters,” the IDF can’t win for losing. Use the “skunk” instead of force? What kind of toxic chemicals is it made of? Use sponge bullets instead of rubber? They still hurt! Someone call the waaambulance. Oh, and the protests that “sometimes turn violent”? Make that “always.”
Racist, apartheid Israel teaches Senagalese about drip-irrigation: Israel, the inventor of drip-irrigation technology for growing food in arid land, is sharing that technology with African nations in the hopes of preventing any more famines. But you wouldn’t know about this unless you read the Israeli press and VOA. Wait, found an article from New Zealand. Because hey, you can’t go against the narrative.
I found the following site reporting a “de facto” freeze. However, the reference is also to this site which basically references the AP report and speculates on what the reasoning could be. The sites speculate on the motives, but don’t point to any other locations. as part of the speculations,
I would say that if there were such a secret agreement, then the leak by AP may have been designed to sabotage it and cause more trouble between the U.S. and Israel.