(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya - The Israeli government's top seven ministers deliberated Wednesday over Israel's response to the demands by the Obama administration regarding construction in east Jerusalem. The ministers were unanimous in agreeing on the need to resolve the crisis with the U.S. Still, a majority of ministers expressed serious reservations over Clinton's demands, including the cancellation of the Ramat Shlomo housing plan. During a telephone conversation Tuesday, Vice President Biden failed to persuade Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to the administration's demands. "There was a difficult air to the conversation, and it ended with no results and no agreements," a senior official in Jerusalem said.
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