Anne Corcoran, Editor of anti-refugee blog called Refugee Settlement Watch, agreed with Mr Trump's views.
They made it costly for the government," Hagit Ofran, director of the Settlement Watch program of Peace Now, said.
While the Hamatos plan includes housing for Palestinians, Hagit Ofran of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project said a similar provision in Har Homa never came to fruition.
I spent several days driving around the West Bank with Etkes, who heads the Settlement Watch program of Peace Now, a left-wing Israeli group that rose to prominence in 1982 when it led protests against Sharon's invasion of Lebanon.
Hagit Ofran, the director of the Settlement Watch project of the once influential Peace Now movement, told me, "Our fight today is not so much to persuade the Israeli public that we need two states.
Dror Etkes, the coordinator of the "settlement watch team" for the advocacy group Peace Now, conceded that those who argued for settlements from a security standpoint, rather than a religious one, had "historical and psychological ground" to stand on.
As Ray Dolphin of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs pointed out Jewish homes in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, and Hagit Ofran of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project described Israel's tourism development around the Old City, Mr. Carter seemed to have heard it all before.
However, Hagit Ofran, the director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch project, noted: "This is not a freeze".
Two weeks ago the Peace Now Settlement Watch team reported extensive groundworks in many settlements, and since then we have found more and more places where there is new construction.
He's the deputy director of their Settlement Watch project, which does pretty much exactly what you would think it does.
All figures, unless otherwise cited, are courtesy of Hagit Ofran, Settlement Watch director for Peace Now, who I thank for sharing her data.
