Interview of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Glenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 14 September 2009
QUESTION: ….sometimes — just it seems like you’ve had — sometimes you’ve had — your language has been blunter than your typical diplomat.
QUESTION: One specific example I was thinking of, early on in the Administration you publicly called for a full settlement freeze, no natural growth, full stop on that. And some of your predecessors might have said that privately but not put it out there in a public domain….
Rice: US entirely opposed to Har Homa
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH, The Jerusalem Post, 10 January 2008
On the eve of US President George W. Bush’s visit to Israel and the region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice placed the issue of settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem at center stage, telling The Jerusalem Post that “Har Homa is a settlement the United States has opposed from the very beginning.”
Rice, who was accompanying Bush en route to Israel overnight Tuesday, said that “the United States doesn’t make a distinction” between settlement activity in east Jerusalem and the West Bank and that Israel’s road map obligations, which include a building freeze, relate to “settlement activity generally.”