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EU report criticizes Israeli expansion into annexed areas
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An EU report criticizes Israeli expansion into the annexed part of the capital.
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
continue reading: The Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/p06s02-wome.html
An EU report criticizes Israeli expansion into the annexed part of the capital.
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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The Israelis, aided by ultranationalist groups that buy up Arab properties and by the tacit support of the government, see themselves as pioneers. But Palestinians see them as settlers - and the European Union, soon to release a controversial report attacking "the construction and expansion of illegal settlements, by private entities and the Israeli government, in and around East Jerusalem" - appears to agree.
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"Several inter-linked Israeli policies are reducing the possibility of reaching a final status agreement on Jerusalem, and demonstrate a clear Israeli intention to turn the annexation of East Jerusalem into a concrete fact," the draft EU report states, citing the ongoing construction of the security barrier, which runs over the Green Line, Israel's pre-1967 boundary, into the West Bank.
continue reading: The Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/p06s02-wome.html
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