{"id":16,"date":"2009-11-04T05:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:18:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T16:18:46","slug":"clinton-israel-must-act-to-ease-palestine-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/clinton-israel-must-act-to-ease-palestine-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Israel must act to ease Palestine tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17\" title=\"hillary_clinton_israel_palestine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hillary_clinton_israel_palestine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hillary_clinton_israel_palestine\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hillary_clinton_israel_palestine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hillary_clinton_israel_palestine.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,has warned Israel that Washington still opposes new Jewish settlements in the West Bank and that they should make greater effort to lower tensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton is on tour aimed at re-launching Middle East peace talks. She praised efforts by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to improve security and said Israel must follow in the same footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>The United States had urged a total halt to new Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank as a precursor to new negotiations, but on Saturday Clinton said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s offer to restrict new building was &#8220;unprecedented&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said Monday that Netanyahu&#8217;s offer &#8220;falls far short of our preferences&#8221; but was still worth seizing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is acted upon it will be an unprecedented restriction on settlements and will have a significant and meaningful effect on restraining their growth,&#8221; Clinton said ahead of an international conference of Arab foreign ministers in Marrakech, Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,has warned Israel that Washington still opposes new Jewish settlements in the West Bank and that they should make greater effort to lower tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,101],"tags":[259,258,267,271,269,272,77159,261,262,270,265,266,268,263,264,260],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-israel","tag-israel-netanyahu","tag-israel-west-bank","tag-marrakech-morocco","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-peace","tag-middle-east-peace-talks","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-president","tag-palestine-west-bank","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinian-president-mahmud-abbas","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}