Netanyahu announces new settlements days before Israeli election

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Plan for 3,500 homes in West Bank is seen as barrier to any future Palestinian state
Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will move ahead with a highly controversial plan to build settlements east of Jerusalem, in an apparent offering to hardline nationalist voters less than a week before a general election.
Israel’s prime minister said he would reopen the long-dormant project to build 3,500 homes for Jewish settlers in one of the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank. Continue reading...

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