Is there a more pitiable creature accumulating frequent flier miles these days than George Mitchell? The former senator who was hailed for arranging a peace agreement between the UK and Northern Ireland ending more than 600 years of British colonization has proved to be no match for the Israelis, particularly when he has been undercut repeatedly by the White House.
Yesterday, as the Hebrew edition of Yediot Ahronot reports, Mitchell again met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him to stop building in the Gilo housing project in East Jerusalem which the Israelis euphemistically call a “neighborhood.”
He got his answer Tuesday morning when the Israeli housing commission announced the construction of 900 additional housing units in Gilo.
