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Israel to Let Settlements Expand

PM rebuffs Obama, backing 'natural growth' in West Bank

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted May 24, 2009 7:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – Israel will let settlements grow in the occupied West Bank despite President Obama's call to freeze expansion, Haaretz reports. "We do not intend to build any new settlements," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, "but it wouldn't be fair to ban...   Read full story »

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