Netanyahu pushes two settlement expansions today, to spit in Obama’s eye

Mitchell Plitnick:

Today, the day of President Barack Obama’s long-anticipated “Middle East reboot” speech and one day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet with Obama, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office (PMO) took up discussion on two major East Jerusalem settlement expansion projects, in Pisgat Ze’ev and Har Homa. …

This is not coincidence, nor bureaucratic happenstance…. Terrestrial Jerusalem posted information about this more than a week ago. The discussion was intentionally put off before in order not to upset Netanyahu’s discussions with European leaders. Upsetting the Americans is not a concern.