hasson who sat with the coward olmert and said nothing when he offered israel and golan to the arabs for nothing, a big fat nothing, is in no position to talk. On the other hand, yishai, also sat with olmert who gave h im his word that he would negotiate jeruslame yet was in fact doing so, the lying bastard that he is.And livni knew about it so she cannot pretend she didn't know about it. But yishai knew that olmert would do anything to please his left leaning wife and did not topple the governement. Now instead of talking to bibi, he announces some housing construction which really is no one's business. But yishai should know. However he is as gutless as his boss, both money grubbers.All the haredi-bloody well go into the army before you study one more word of tanach.And Hasson-shut the hell up you and kadima, as gutless as they come-bar-on, ramon, livni.

For this, the Minister should/must resign. It is either impudence toward the PM, which suggests the Minister be fired, or an agreed-upon scenario gone badly wrong, in which case a "fall guy" is needed, and the Minister is the candidate closest at hand. Someone has to be sacrificed over this.

by a long shot. However, Yishai should resign. Immediately if not sooner. Biden's behavior seems worse to me than the building announcement. Deliberately snubbing Bibi in his own country is too much. Let's show some manners and civility even if it doesn't go your way; that's diplomacy, Joe. Don't forget you're suppose to be visiting a friend...

LET ME GIVE YOU THE JEWISH ETHICS IN DINING, WHEN THE AMERICAN ARE INVITED FOR DINNER BE ON TIME, OR ELSE THEY WASTE OUR ISRAELIS TIME ! THE AMERICANS BROUGHT EMBASSASMENT ON THEM SELVES BY THEIR ' INSENSITIVENESS' HE IS ON ISRAELI SOIL , ISRAELIS ARE EQUAL, AS SUCH NO WAY ISRALIS MUST SUCK UP TO THE AMERICANS OR ANYBODY ! THERE IS NO NEED TO FIND FAULT WITH ELI YISHAI ! THE APPROVAL OF THE HOUSES WERE ALREADY GRANTED BEFORE TEH ARRIVAL OF THST BIDEN ! JEWSIH INTEREST OVERIDED BIDEN . NO BODY INTENDED TO HUMILIATE BIDEN OR THE AMERICANS. ATTILA SOMFALVI- WHHE YOU REPORT THES E- YOU APPLY SOME JOURNALISTIC FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY WITH CARE AND SENSITIVITY OF THE JEWSIH PEOPLE/ ISRAELIS ! REMEMBER IF YOU SAY SOME ONE IS SENSITIVE , YOU MUST NOT FORGET TO SEE THE OTHET SIDES 'INSENSITIVE " ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE HEARTS AN MIN DOF THE JEWS !

regardless of whether you believe that building should continue in East Jerusalem (which I do), this is an outrage that a minister should take it upon himself to disregard the Prime Minister and humiliate the US like this. A slap in the face to the PM and to VP Biden. Yishai needs to go now if Netanyahu is to maintain any semblance of authority.

there is no excuse for this unbelievable act of stupidity .. one can only conclude that it was intentionally done to cause a problem .. Yishai should be helfd accountable for damaging Israel's realtions with the US .. what was that idiot thinking ... remove him form office to save face

I think thin could have been better planned if possible. All you self-hating Libtards Jews that think this will have any effect on peace are delusional. What is great is that it should be heard and understood loud and clear there is only Jerusalem undivided. Makes no difference where we build as long as we do. I see two flags in the picture. This is our country not a part of the USA.

Prime Minister and Mrs. Netanyahu should have gotten up and left. Who the hell is Joe Biden, anyway? Most of us remember him as a plagiarist. That said -- I don't think that the United States administration would tolerate Israeli interference in internal American affairs. As a sovereign state, Israel enjoys the same rights. What a topsy-turvy world this has become, where terrorist rabble enjoy the status of internationally accredited heads of state and heads of sovereign states are treated rudely and dismissively. Obama and his band of merry leftists are destined for the dung heap of history. Can't wait for 2012 unless, of course, the American people come to their senses and demand Obama's impeachment.

Trying to please the Muslim Obuma is a stupid thing to do. Nothing Israel can do short of deconstucting itself will appease Obama and his anti American, anti Israel government. Israel's strength lies in being strong without needing Obama. Help won't be forthcoming anyway. He hates whites, Jews and America.

WHO GIVES A DAM IF US COMES TO DINNER LATE IF THERE IS A HOUSING SHORTAGE IN JERUSALEM. NOONE TELLS US WHERE TO BUILD. TELL OBAMA TO FIX THE US ECONOMY AND MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS AND LET THE JEWS DEAL WITH TERRORISTS THE WAY SHE SEES FITS

This is an outrage to do it for him

ynet should be ashamed to consider ramat shlomo as not being part of the country.once again your corespondant provea he is more representing the arabs.where was ynet journalists when the arabs cleary stated that inspite of the mit\hel indirect talks the intifada shall go on.

Humiliating the VP of the USA Joe Biden. Does Biden build houses on occupied Indian land in America?????Who needs another american interfering?? Go home Biden.

The historical and political truth about our rights and legitimity is unquestionable. Mistakes done by Israeli government(s) in Anapolis or before should not be respected and should be put right immediately. No Jewish leader has the right to abandon any part of the Land of Israel. The Jews have the right to build and live freely in their country. We have modern political rights dating back to the First World War: "After World War I, the borders and countries that today make up the Middle East were created - Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc. Modern Israel was created the same way! The countries of the world charged Britain [in the San Remo Resolution of 1920, based on the League of Nations and Balfour Declaration] with creating a 'national homeland' for the Jewish People, based on the 'historical rights' of the Jews, and calling for Jewish immigration and settlement here. Only a quarter of the land, including Hevron and Shechem, originally designated for the Jews by the League of Nations, was left for us. The historical and political truth at: http://xrl.us/berwte

BIBI, DONT FALL INTO THAT AMERICAN ARROGANCE ! ISRAEL IS OLDER THAN BIDEN OR OBAMA !

HIS DISCRETION AS MANDATED BY THE ISRALI PUBLIC IN THEIR VOTES ! THE TEST : DID IRAN CARE ABOUT THE UN A ND USA SANCTION TO STOP THE BUILDING OF THE NUK PLANT ? WELL CAN ANYONE ANSWER THAT ? CAN BIDEN OR OBAMER ANSWER THAT ? THE HUMILIATED ARE THE ISRAELIS NOT THE AMERICANS ? LET ME TELL YOU AN INSIDENT OD HUMILIATION . IN A BAR DINING IN SINGAPORE, RECENTLY A JEWISH LAW STUDENT WAS TO COMPLETE HIS DINING TO QUALIFY ....GUESS WHAT THE SERVED HIM ON THE FIRST DINING,,,,,,, SALADS WITH NON- KOSHER DRESSSING AND DRISELS ! SECOND DINING BOILED BROCOLI, BOILED POTATO, NO BREAD NO BUTTER ! HE SAT THROUGH THE DINING WITHOUT EATING ANYTHING ? THE GUEST OF HONOR ALSO WITHNESS THIS HUMILIATION RIGHT THROUGH! THAT IS HUMILIATION ! TELL THE AMERICAN BIDEN TO BE A GENTLEMAN FIRT BEFORE BEING AN OFFICER OF THE USA DELEGATE ! IT IS THE AMERICAN THAT IS INSENTITIVE TOWARDS THE JEWSIH INTEREST ! WE JEWA ALSO HAVE OUR FREEDON OF SPEECH ON ISSUES CONCERNING OUR BREAD AND BUTTER AND OUR LAND ! WITHOUT APOLOGY BEN SINGAPORE

AND THEY WANT TO PLAY DINNING GAMES ? THE AMERICANS AR CREATING PROVOCATION OVER ISRAELIS ! MR. BENJAMIN, YOU PLEASE KNOW, THAT YOU WERE VOTED BY THE ISRALIS TO SPEAK FOR THE ISRAELIS BUT NOT HAMMRING YOU OWN PEOPLE. MR. BENJMAIN. WITH DUE RESPECT I MUST SAY MY PIECE ! MR. BENJMAIN PLEASE DON FIND FAULT WITH THE ISARELI MINISTERS ! BEN SINGAPORE

congress address. is it a coincidence or a message...

Let's see now: Biden, a plagiarist caught in the act in his earlier years (look it up on google if you don't know about this), and a blowhard gasbag to this very moment, is the vile assistant to the even viler Caliph Hussein Obama. Although 78% of the US Jewish population suffered from temporary insanity in November 2008 and voted for the unqualified affirmative action joke and his gasbag assistant, let's hope that this was mainly due to some relapse of tendencies due to genetic inheritance - perhaps the 78% are all biological descendants of the followers of Shabtai Zvi, or members of the "reform" (better phrased as Deformed) movement, or both. However, the remaining 22%suffered no such episode of stupidity. Let's hope that the 78% quickly return to their senses, join the sane 22%, and vote the Caliph and his gasbag assistant OUT in 2012. In the meantime, PLEASE, humiliate Biden by making housing announcements as much as possible. Biden is an old-style, cigar-chomping, lying, illicict deal-making politician of the type caricatured in bad gangster films. May he and his hairpiece go off into the sunset together.

Israel should build anywhere in jerusalem. Stp playing lip service. Stand by your words of Jerusalem,the Jewish peoples capital...and build!

or is it the reverse?

No country has so far recognized Israeli sovereignty in either West or East Jerusalem. With regard to West Jerusalem, the European states have de facto accepted the applicability of Israeli law. The case of Yossele Schumacher; this young ultra-Orthodox boy was abducted in the 1960s by his father from Jerusalem to the United Kingdom. The British court applied the law in force in West Jerusalem, i.e., Israeli law. Interestingly, foreign states have not claimed that the law of occupation should apply to West Jerusalem." Another example is the Regency Hotel, formerly the Hyatt Hotel on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. It is partly built in an area where there was an Israeli enclave from 1949 to 1967 and partly outside it. When official European representatives come to the hotel they go only into those parts located on land that belonged to this enclave.

What have we come to that we are embarrassed by announcing that we are building homes for Jews in Eretz Yisroel? By being "embarrassed" the Israeli government is acknowledging that the crux of the argument between us and the Arabs is land. It is not, That is not the problem. The problem is that the Arabs do not want Jews living in the Middle East - not here, there or anywhere. Moslems cannot suffer Jews controlling any land which they have self-fantasized to be "theirs". If our government had any "Jewish pride" it would say to Mr. Biden, "Thank G-d we are providing more homes for Jews in Israel!"

After the way Obama backed off from the promises to Israel concerning the deadlines for Iran, those jerks from Washington deserve the same treatment.

Don't give into world pressure. Build, build, & build some more. If Biden is upset we must have made the right decision.

There were less than 200 Jews in all of Palestine and the Holy Land in 1840's. Jews were never the majority in any city or area until they came in with force. The Jews that lived in Palestine in the 1840's had immigrated from England and most returned to England because their crops failed. All Jews living in Palestine were illegal immigrants from Europe and America.

no love lost there, clearly don't let the door hit ya on the way out JB...