Shades of Yitzchak Shamir: Housing units in 'east' Jerusalem approved day before Kerry arrival

Back in the late '80's and early '90's, we had a feisty Prime Minister named Yitzchak Shamir.

A former Lehi commander, Shamir wasn't going to be kept down. Every time then-President George H.W. Bush sent an emissary to see Shamir, on the day of or the day before the emissary's arrival, a new 'settlement' went up.

Are we seeing it happening again, albeit with the comparatively gutless