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Israel to build 700 apartments in east Jerusalem

Associated Press – Israel said Monday that it will build nearly 700 new apartments in east Jerusalem, drawing tough criticism from both the Palestinians and the United States, which denounced the plan as an obstacle to peacemaking. The dispute over east Jerusalem is the most intractable””and explosive””in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state and consider Jewish neighborhoods there to be settlements. Israel claims all of the city as its eternal capital. Read article


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