Israel begins new settlement push
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Israel invites tenders to build 700 new homes in two settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, a step Palestinians said on Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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Israel plans to build more than 530 new settler homes in the West Bank and signalled it would accept growth in Jewish enclaves in the occupied territory, Israeli political sources said on Monday.
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Israel plans to build more than 530  new settler homes in the West Bank after Washington signaled it  would accept growth in Jewish enclaves in the occupied  territory, Israeli political sources said on Monday.
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Israel announced plans Monday to build hundreds of new housing units in the West Bank, following an apparent US policy shift on settlements that the Palestinians warned &quot;will destroy the peace process.
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Israel announced plans yesterday for more than 500 new housing units in the West Bank, following an apparent US policy shift on Jewish settlements that has infuriated the Palestinians.
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JERUSALEMâWith his political life in the balance, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took the first tentative steps on the path to peace last night, winning parliamentary consent for a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of
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Israel&#39;s housing ministry has approved tenders for the construction of about a thousand new homes in West Bank settlements.
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Israel will begin building another 533 housing units in the West Bank next year, an official said today, the latest indication that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is working to strengthen West Bank settlements while pushing ahead with a Gaza pullout plan.
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WITH THE WORLD&#39;S attention focused on Athens and Najaf, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is bent on expanding settlements in the West Bank by more than 1,000 new apartments and has plans for 1,000 more.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved bids for construction of 1,000 homes in Jewish West Bank settlements after freezing them earlier this month, amid growing friction with the United States over continued settlement expansion.    The planned construction violates the internationally backed "road map" plan, accepted by Israel, which calls for a construction freeze...
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The Israeli government on Tuesday invited construction bids for 1,001 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an official said, in direct violation of a U.S.-backed peace plan calling for a settlement freeze.
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JERUSALEM -- The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued bids yesterday to build 700 homes in the West Bank, its largest settlement construction project since taking office in May.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the go ahead for a project tender that foresees the construction of 1,000 new Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands.
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With talks set for Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmertâs government sought budget approval for new settlements.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.
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Israel says it will move a planned stretch of its controversial barrier in the West Bank closer to Israel.