Anyone think the Obama regime will have the balls to bitch and moan like they normally do after new settlement construction is approved?

JERUSALEM, March 13 — An Israeli ministerial committee Saturday night approved the construction of several hundred housing units in West Bank settlements, a decision that comes in the wake of a deadly attack in the settlement of Itamar on Friday, in which five family members were stabbed to death.

“The ministerial committee on settlement affairs decided to approve construction in the settlements of Gush Etzion, Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, and Kiryat Sefer,” read a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office. It added that the decision called for “measured construction” of a few hundred homes within settlement blocs.

The decision comes long months wherein Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, fearing reproach by the U.S. administration, refrained from approving new construction permits for West Bank communities.

Netanyahu’s office notified the White House of the decision. Israeli daily Ha’aretz quoted a government official as saying that the decision is strategic and aims to build in settlements that are slated to remain under Israel’s control in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.

But the decision is mostly perceived as retribution for the brutal killing of the Fogel family.

Two attackers armed with knives entered their home in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, around 11 p.m. local time (2100 GMT). Udi and Ruth Fogel, aged 35 and 36, were stabbed to death in their sleep, along with their month-old daughter.