Così il dipartimento di Stato americano ha definito la mossa del governo israeliano, di inserire la Tomba dei Patriarchi a Hebron e la Tomba di Rachele a Betlemme nel patrimonio culturale israeliano.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the administration viewed the move as provocative and unhelpful to the goal of getting the two sides back to the table.
Toner said US displeasure with the designations of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the flash point town of Hebron and the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel in Bethlehem had been conveyed to senior Israeli officials by American diplomats.