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New U.S. Government Isn't Obsessed with Where Israel's Jews Live
(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - Stories about Israeli settlements invariably generate breathless international headlines, as though there is something uniquely newsworthy about Jews in the Jewish state building homes and schools to accommodate a growing population. It takes a curious derangement to conclude that all would be well in the Middle East if only Israel would stop enlarging Jewish neighborhoods. To its credit, the new U.S. administration rejects that paradigm, with the White House spokesman saying last week that the president and his foreign-policy team "don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace." Palestinian rejectionism has always been the insurmountable impediment to Middle East peace - not Jewish housing.