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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree \"On the Special Procedure for Making Settlements under Foreign Trade Contracts for the Supply of Russian Agricultural Products,\" which provides for payment for these products in national currencies.
Settlements, in the early days of the administration, the prime minister came to washington and said this is the be all and end all. and said you have to stop settlements. so this is not a new story, this is not the building up of all sorts of years in some new policy. it was deeply disappointing that this administration in its waning days failed to -- this was a 72-minute speech and yet they did not discuss that israel made a sweepi ining peace offer 2000 that was met by palestinian rejection and claimed 1,000 israeli lives. they did not mention that in 2008, another israeli prime minister ma...
Frustrations. we have heard benjamin netanyahu respond, john kerry lashing out at the so-called settler agenda. your response? >> well, look, first of all, this is not new. i have been in this capacity as ambassador for over three years, before that i was the senior advisor to the prime minister. we have been working with this administration for eight years and in 2009 we had a crisis over the whole question of settlem t settlements. this administration, president barack obama came into office thinking that the whole reason why we don't have peace with the pla palestinians is because of the qu...
Ukraine and all anybody can talk about is israel making settlements. but the issue is will the palestinians recognize israel as the nation state of the jewish people and stop insent vising people to -- the obama white house has policy experts touting a new found closeness between president-elect trump and prime minister netanyahu. mr. trump tweeting earlier today, quote, we cannot let israel continue to be treated with such total disdpan and disrespect. they used to have a great friend in the u.s., but not anymore. the beginning of the end was the horrible iran deal, now this, u.n. stay stro...
Frustrations. we have heard benjamin netanyahu respond, john kerry lashing out at the so-called settler agenda. your response? >> well, look, first of all, this is not new. i have been in this capacity as ambassador for over three years, before that i was the senior advisor to the prime minister. we have been working with this administration for eight years and in 2009 we had a crisis over the whole question of settlem t settlements. this administration, president barack obama came into office thinking that the whole reason why we don't have peace with the pla palestinians is because of the qu...