Israel angers U.S. by approving new West Bank homes

2009/11/17 16:57:17 @Reuters: World News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel triggered a fresh rift with Washington over settlement building on Tuesday by approving the building of 900 homes for Jews on West Bank land it occupied in a 1967 war and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Edy0L7LMFEA:7cAgMHzmXqE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Edy0L7LMFEA:7cAgMHzmXqE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Edy0L7LMFEA:7cAgMHzmXqE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Edy0L7LMFEA:7cAgMHzmXqE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Edy0L7LMFEA:7cAgMHzmXqE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Edy0L7LMFEA" height="1" width="1"/
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