https://portside.org/2014-01-11/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