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US Trump administration officials issued a warning to Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against excessive building of settlements in the West Bank, telling him "you can be a pig, but don't be a ‘Hazer,'"-a well-known Yiddish term for a gluttonous pig.

Netanyahu reportedly relayed the message to the pro-settlement Yesha Council during a meeting on Wednesday in which representatives presented him with a list of demands for improving infrastructure in West Bank settlements and seeking approval for 10,000 new settler units in the area.

The Trump administration, he said, was gearing up to announce plans to restart the so-called ‘peace' process between the Palestinians and the ‘Israeli' entity.

‘"Israel' is acting with responsibility and discretion and the government is not interested in quarreling with the friendly administration," Netanyahu claimed in front of the representatives present at the meeting, who were perturbed by the implication that the government would not be launching the construction program on the scale they had hoped for.

One of the settler heads at the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that participants left the meeting "extremely concerned" and deduced that Netanyahu was effectively preparing the ground for Trump's political program which will require that ‘Israel' relinquish territory in the West Bank and that Netanyahu had already reconciled himself with such an eventuality.

During the meeting the council representatives charged that a systematic policy of "discrimination" had taken place with the government's refusal allocate necessary funds for improving infrastructure in the West Bank for settlements.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team