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JERUSALEM - The Obama administration's relations with Israel hit a new low on Thursday as hopes for fresh peace talks collapsed in the wake of the row over plans for 1,200 settler homes.

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden ended a three-day visit to the region by saying President Barack Obama had asked him to issue an "immediate and unequivocal" condemnation of the move.

Biden had hoped his trip would be crowned by the resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians after a year of stalemate, but he was left humiliated after the surprise announcement on Tuesday of plans for settlement construction in disputed east Jerusalem.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said on Thursday that it would be "impossible" for the U.S.-mediated indirect talks to go ahead unless the plans were withdrawn.

His spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said: "It was the Israeli decision to start a new settlement project in east Jerusalem that hindered these talks. The Israelis should revoke these decisions, otherwise it will be impossible to go back to the negotiations."

The Palestinians were supported by the 22-nation Arab League.

www.windsorstar.com/news/Israeli+settlement+derails+peace+efforts/2674856/story.html

Israel is not interested in peace, and anyone who believes they are is delusional. And when Hamas fires rockets into Israel as a response to Israel's continuing oppression and expansion, it is called "anti-Semitism."

We live in a wonderful world.

jews are being jews

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Israel is just asking for it lol