Israel seeks bids for hundreds more Jerusalem settler homes

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"Israel has invited tenders for the building of hundreds of more homes in Jewish settlements in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, the independent Channel 10 television said on Sunday.

In all, the housing ministry sought bids for the construction of 692 new homes in the settlements of Neve Yaacov, Pisgat Zeev and Har Homa, among a dozen that ring the city, the channel said.

East Jerusalem settlements already house some 200,000 Jewish settlers alongside its 270,000 Palestinian residents.

Israel's continued expansion of settlements is one of the biggest obstacles to the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians, now suspended for a year.

Israel, which captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community, insists the whole city is its "eternal, indivisible" capital.

The Palestinians are determined to make the city's eastern sector the capital of their promised state, a goal endorsed earlier this month by the European Union."

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[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. As usual, the most insidious actions of Israel's illegal occupation get scant attention here.

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2. Unfortunately, that does appear to be the case...

What's happening in East Jerusalem is wrong on so many levels....

[Ken Burch]

3. ..Yet will be defended mindlessly by some nonetheless.

Crazed nationalism does that to a person.