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Israel Formalizes Three West Bank Settlements

(Wall Street Journal) Joshua Mitnick - Israel granted formal status to three West Bank communities Sunday. An Israeli official said that the decision was merely "technical" and that the communities - Rehalim, Bruchin, and Sansana - were established as full-fledged settlements in the 1990s by previous Israeli cabinets. "Anyone who says these are three new settlements doesn't know what they're talking about," said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu. "People who are calling these communities outposts are also not being factual because these communities were authorized by previous Israeli governments."

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