Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement construction, two of his aides said Friday, in an apparent snub of Washington's public demand for a total settlement freeze.
At the same time, however, Netanyahu would be willing to consider suspending construction on most of the lands Palestinians claim for a future state for several months, the aides said.
But since that would occur only after the new units and some 2,500 others currently under construction are completed, the move would not amount to the freeze the Palestinians have set as a condition for the resumption of peace …
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