Israel finally tells Condi where to stick it

On Friday, Israel greeted the prospective arrival of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the news that the government had authorized the construction of 1300 new housing units for Jews in 'east' Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. On Sunday, they followed up by announcing that the new units were part of a larger plan that would see some 40,000 new Jewish housing units built in