Let’s cut the nonsense: There isn’t going to be any settlement freeze. No matter what Barack Obama demands, no matter what Binyamin Netanyahu agrees to, the settlements are going to keep on growing, both demographically and geographically, because that’s what they’ve been doing under every Israeli government, even those that actually wanted to take them down, which this government doesn’t.
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