"Historical crisis" between Israel and the U.S. ambassador says Oren

Yesterday - 09.14 The crisis erupted in the relations between the United States and Israel after the submission of a plan for new settlements in the West Bank and threatens the path of peace with the Palestinians the most severe of the last 35 years. Continue reading this story, said the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, as reported by the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The statements attributed to Oren, noted historian Middle East clash with the assurances of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who maintains that the dispute resulted in the announcement of new settlements - as "offensive" by Obama - under control. "Relations between Israel and the U.S. have reached their worst point since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions," he Oren said other Israeli diplomats in a telephone briefing on the weekend, reported the newspaper. The comments, reported by other Israeli media, referring to pressure that in 1975 the U.S. became the Jewish state to call for a redistribution of troops in the Sinai , occupied since 1967. The Israeli Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment. The plan to build 1,600 new homes in the West Bank was announced as the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was on a visit to support indirect peace negotiations with the Palestinians. - On www.reuters.it other news site Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia