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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
J Street slams settlement announcement as ‘highly dangerous’
The liberal US Jewish group J Street also condemns Israel’s announcement of new West Bank settlement houses, saying Israel appears to have free rein from the US government.
“The Israeli government’s approval today of 2,500 new housing units in the West Bank is highly dangerous, reflecting its sense that it now has carte blanche from the new American President for unlimited settlement expansion,” J Street says.
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