Can this really be true?

The problem re this news item:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/israel-announces-new-settlement-expansion-20146553145984773.html

is whether the U.S. ambassador is actually speaking with the imprimatur of the President of the U.S.; or he is shooting from his hip as a self-initiated act?

Lesson:
In any case the fate of this U.S. ambassador was doomed by AIPAC.