According to AP and The Daily Mail:
Israel's prime minister dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying in comments broadcast on Sunday that the criticism goes 'against American values.'
The tough words by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to deepen a rift with the White House over Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians as parts of a future independent state.
Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of a new housing development in east Jerusalem.
The United States and the international community do not accept Israel's occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem and consider construction there to be illegal settlement activity.
In an interview on CBS' Face The Nation on Sunday, Netanyahu said he is:
...'baffled' by the American condemnation.
'It's against the American values. And it doesn't bode well for peace,' he said.
Netanyahu's pious 'concern' for 'peace' is as convincing as his comb-over (which is so laughably bogus that it even has
its own Facebook page).
Until there are real-world consequences for Israel's defiance of International Law and UN resolutions, the theft of Palestinian land will continue, making an already improbable 'two-state solution' impossible. But for Likud, of course, that is the point.