NEWS FLASH
Israel: West Bank Settlement Construction Jumps 660 Percent | The Israeli government statistics bureau announced that construction of settlement housing in the West Bank jumped 660 percent in the first half of 2011 as compared with the same period last year. The 2010 period coincided with the end of the settlement freeze imposed by Israel to try to jumpstart peace negotiations, but the bump in building was staggering nonetheless: construction has started on more than 500 settlement homes in the illegally occupied West Bank so far this year. “We need at least 500 new homes a month, not just in half a year,” an official from a settlement council told a pro-settlement Israeli newspaper-cum-conspiracy-site. (HT: George Hale)
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