Building freeze in Jerusalem

Has he or hasn’t he

Has the prime minister of Israel frozen defacto building in east Jerusalem? That my friends is the 64 thousand dollar question. The prime minister says of course not , the major news sites are sure that it is so. What does the mayor of Jerusalem say? That there is a slow down but not a complete stoppage of building.
Go figure it out. The prime minister came to power on a very clear platform of continuing to build in all parts of Jerusalem. Even labor governments always refused to budge on any building freeze in Jerusalem. How then could a right wing Conservative prime minister put on a freeze. Great question.

Difficult answer.
The plain truth is that the mechanism to approve new building has been stopped. There has not been an official freeze just a defacto freeze that President Obama and Netanyahu have agreed upon. To prove this point no new approved building plans will be put forth in the coming months. A defacto freeze.
Apparently Mitchell has whispered in Avbu Mazens ears that there an a unofficial freeze and hopes that will bring him back to the negotiating table. It hasn’t yet. But who knows?
It is unlikely or rather impossible that all this will get anyone anywhere.
It will in all likelihood get us another war