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U.S. Sees Disengagement, Not Settlement Construction, as Key Focus

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - White House and State Department officials constantly repeat in public the standard line about blanket opposition to all settlement construction. But the statements are never followed by an "or else" clause. Privately, Israel is picking up signals that, while Washington is not overjoyed with such construction, it is not going to make a big issue if it is all done quietly. The announcement on construction of 3,500 units from Maale Adumim to Jerusalem was a strictly bureaucratic measure that ended a decade-long planning process. However, a political decision to go ahead and send out the bulldozers has not been taken. While settlement construction is always a headline grabber, the major issue now is disengagement.
2005-04-08 00:00:00
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