Friedman: Israel does not need US permit for settlements

Qods News Agency (Qodsna)/ In an interview published in Israel Hayom daily, David Friedman said Israel "shouldn't have to ask permission from the US" to build settlements in the occupied West Bank.

According to Friedman, Zionist regime is entitled to the possibility even though the Trump administration has never challenged an Israeli construction plan in the West Bank.

US newspapers have said Friedman is unfit to be ambassador to Occupied Palestine, arguing that he has politicized his diplomatic office and misrepresented US policy on the conflict with Palestinians. 

"In David Friedman, President Trump has nominated someone who lacks the necessary temperament to serve in such a crucial position," the San Francisco Chronicle wrote last March. 

Under the Trump administration, Israel has increasingly become emboldened in its settlement expansion and repressive policies against Palestinians and Friedman is viewed more of an Israeli ambassador.

Earlier this month, Palestinian media reported that Zionist regime plans to build more than 4,700 settler units in the village of al-Walaja, west of the city of Bethlehem.

In August, the Israeli regime approved plans for the construction of over 1,000 settler units in the occupied West Bank.

Friedman said contrary to the former US administration under Barack Obama, President Donald Trump does not examine every settler unit built in the occupied West Bank,