The furor triggered by the announcement during US Vice President Joe Biden’s trip last week of plans to build 1,600 housing units in northeastern Jerusalem continued to reverberate over the weekend, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling the move “insulting” and the new EU foreign policy chief hinting Europe could use trade ties as leverage against Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, apparently taken aback by Clinton’s sharp criticism, called a meeting of his inner cabinet on Saturday night to discuss the continuing fallout and formulate a response. Following that meeting, Netanyahu put out a statement late Saturday night saying...