Part 2 - in which she talks about Israeli settlements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvI1W8j_uJsNetanyahu responds...
New peace setback as Binyamin Netanyahu rejects US settlement callTim Reid, in Washington
Israel and America were locked in one of their most bitter disputes for decades last night after the Israeli Government flatly rejected a direct call from President Obama to halt the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The row threatened to set back President Obama’s already bleak prospects for brokering peace in the Middle East. It is likely to dominate his trip to the region next week, when he makes an address to the Muslim and Arab worlds in Cairo on Thursday.
The provocative response to the US Administration’s demand — which had been delivered by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday — came hours before Mr Obama was due to hold a White House meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President. He said as he travelled to Washington that the Palestinian demand for freezing settlements would be at the top of his agenda.
Mrs Clinton, using the bluntest public language towards Israel for years, said that when Mr Obama met Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, in Washington a fortnight ago, he had been “very clear” that there should be a stop to all building and expansion of settlements. “He (Obama) wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not ‘natural growth’ exceptions,” Mrs Clinton declared — a reference to Israel’s insistence that new construction was necessary to accommodate the growth of families already living in existing settlements.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6383153.ece
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