U.S. supposedly gave Israel 6 months to freeze settlements

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, July 13, 2009 - 4:02 PM Share

That's the story I saw in Haaretz: It is kind of a four-cushion shot, to wit: Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, supposedly told the Lebanese government that the U.S. government recently gave the Israeli government a six-month deadline in which to freeze settlements, according to a Beirut  newspaper.

I have the same reaction I often do when reading hot stories in the British press: That's interesting, if true.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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