: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explicitly rejected demands by the Obama administration that Israel cease all construction over the Green Line, saying that the USA position on Judea and Samaria was “not acceptable.” Speaking at a press conference in Rwanda on 6 July 2016, Netanyahu said Israel would not accept the kinds of broad restrictions on construction in Judea & Samaria demanded by the White House and ridiculed suggestions that such construction was an obstacle to peace. “The USA position is not new and it is not acceptable to us,” the Prime Minister said. “Building in Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim is, in all due respect, not distancing the peace.” It is not housing units that fuel the ongoing violence, claimed Netanyahu, but Arab anti-Semitic incitement and refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist. “What is preventing peace is, first of all, the continuous incitement against the existence of Israel on any borders, and it is time that the nations of the world recognize that simple truth. The way to peace is through negotiations, we are willing to have direct negotiations, they are not willing to. That is preventing peace, not a few houses in Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.” (Arutz-7)