Tánaiste @SimonHarrisTD has joined 21 counterparts from Europe and globally in condemning plans for settlement construction in the E1 area of the West Bank. These plans are a violation of international law & a fundamental threat to the two-state solution – they must be reversed. pic.twitter.com/FTmIbDZbEv

I wouldn’t tell the British where to build in London,” the Israeli ambassador said. “We see E1 as part of greater Jerusalem.”The post Hotovely to UK: ‘Don’t tell us where

In a reversal of past US policy, the State Department backed the E1 project connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, calling it essential to Israel’s stability and regional peace.