By Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents: Netanyahu seeks Obama okay to build in settlement blocs
Talkback
Title:Almost hysterically funny
Name:Colin Wright
City: RichmondState: California
What can you say? Natanyahu doesn`t think Israel should observe the formal undertakings to freeze settlement contruction -- that is to say, to obey the international law conventions Israel has signed.

Rather, he thinks it reasonable to suppose that Obama will continue the `informal arrangements` Israel reached with the Bush administration to the opposite effect. He feels that these `can certainly form a basis for understandings.`

No doubt he does. Whether Obama does is another question, though.