https://portside.org/2017-12-18/slapping-kerry

'I can’t believe how naïve, or disingenuous and complicit, the Americans are.'

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the
Palestine Liberation Organization’s
executive committee, concerning
the announcement of Israeli
government's plan to build 1,400
housing units in Jewish settlements
in East Jerusalem and the West
Bank, a move the chief Palestinian
negotiator condemned as a “slap” to
Secretary of State John Kerry’s
intense push for a Middle East peace deal