no wiggle room

(photo I took in the West Bank of an Illegal Settlement)

From a New York Times Article it would appear the U.S. is going to FINALLY start using words a little more to the point that "unhelpful".
Both used by former Secretary of State Ms. Rice and most recently Mrs. Clinton. So much for the all mighty U.S.A. it seems we have had a weak spot for Israel. Israel is like a spoiled child who the U.S. politely tells to stop doing forbidden activity like population transfer, which by the way is um... ILLEGAL (para 6). The WORLD and the U.S. tells them to stop but they continue as if they have lost their hearing... This is why I question having children...THEY DON'T LISTEN!!

Here are a couple things that might be important to understand before reading the article.

1. SETTLEMENTS are communities inhabited by Israelis in Palestinian territories (Illegal by International Law)

2. OUTPOST is a term used, often to describe a small Israeli settlements. While much smaller in nature than the average settlement, housing between one and a few families, they are often established without the approval of the Israeli Government (Illigal according to both Israeli law & International Law)

3. NATURAL GROWTH, is nothing more than a loophole, Israel uses to continue settlement expansion free of confrontation. Israel has expanded the meaning of “natural growth” to include not only births from the existing population, but also influxes of the migration populations.

Some of the important excerpts:

• In expansive language that left no wiggle room, Mrs. Clinton said that Mr. Obama “wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions.”

in response

• Mr. Netanyahu’s spokesman, Mark Regev, said that “normal life” would be allowed in settlements in the occupied West Bank, using the phrase that Israel often uses to describe continued construction to accommodate population growth.

• “This approach is predicated on the assumption that an Israeli prime minister needs a tough American president to justify tough decisions to an Israeli public,” said Martin Indyk, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and a former United States ambassador to Israel.

• “People in the American Jewish community and in Israel are sick of settlement activity. The whole zeitgeist has changed.”