Israel Advances 1,100 Settlement Units Despite Peace Talks

[Purveyor]

JERUSALEM – As Israeli and Palestinian negotiators prepare for a second round of peace talks next week, an Israeli military committee advanced nearly 1,100 units of proposed Jewish housing in the West Bank, a settlement-watch group said Thursday.

The projects are particularly sensitive because most of the units are located in isolated settlements that Israel is unlikely to retain if and when a Palestinian state is created.

Palestinian leaders have warned that such moves will threaten the recently revived peace process, launched last month by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

The U.S. has urged Israel to refrain from expanding settlements on land it seized during the 1967 Mideast War. Most of the international community views such settlement construction as illegal.

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[delrem]

1. This kind of shit splashes right off a grin like John Kerry's.

Kerry gets to inherit Clinton - not a light task for anyone but another right-wingnut.

Regardless: Netanyahu is a counter and he counts land absolutely annexed, and this is Netanyahu's total objective.