For decades, the US has been reiterating her position concerning the issue of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian land occupied in 1967, and saying that these settlements are an obstacle to peace. We have been hearing this statement over, and over again from the different American presidents, and the different figures of the consecutive administrations. However, Israel has continued to build settlements and the US hasn\'t taken any measures to deter Israel. What became evident over the years that the US was just making verbal opposition to settlement building, but elevating her cooperation on mostly every level with Israel particularly on the strategic ones