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JERUSALEM (Reuters) Israel Jerusalem municipality has approved construction of four apartment buildings next to a Jewish seminary uk canada goose in East Jerusalem, officials said on canada goose uk black friday Tuesday, a project Palestinians called an attempt to undermine peace moves.
A Palestinian labourer uk canada goose outlet is seen at a construction Canada Goose sale site in a settlement near Jerusalem known to buy canada goose jacket Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim December 29, 2009. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said canada goose uk shop he will not resume talks with Israel, suspended for the past year, until it halts all settlement activity in line with a 2003 peace plan in which the Palestinians pledged to rein in canada goose black friday sale militants.
Israel Canada Goose Coats On Sale and the United States have called on him to return to negotiations without preconditions.
far as the buy canada goose jacket cheap municipality is concerned, building can begin, canada goose said Stephan canada goose coats on sale Miller, spokesman for Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, after its planning committee gave the go goose black friday ahead on Monday for the 24 unit complex to be Canada Goose Parka erected on the Mount of Olives.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman Canada Goose Jackets for Abbas, said the project, adjacent to the long standing Beit Orot seminary, Israel is trying to undermine Arab and international efforts canada goose store aimed at saving canada goose factory sale the peace process.
Some 200,000 Israelis already live in East Jerusalem and nearby areas of the West Bank that Israel captured in a 1967 war and considers part of cheap Canada Goose the biblical city that it describes as its eternal and indivisible capital.
The Israeli sovereignty claim is not recognized internationally.
Palestinians want East canada goose coats Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They say Israeli settlements could thwart their hopes for a viable homeland.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu excluded Jerusalem from the canada goose uk outlet 10 month canada goose clearance moratorium he announced in November on housing starts in Jewish settlements in Canada Goose online the West Bank, a move he said he hoped could help revive peace negotiations.
A week ago, Israel drew Palestinian and international criticism when it announced plans to build nearly 700 new Jewish homes in areas of the West Bank within its declared Jerusalem city limits.
Responding to that project, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs cheap https://www.canadagoosejacketsalesca.co.uk canada goose uk said neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians should canadian goose jacket engage in actions Canada Goose Online that could preempt a peace deal.
In all, about 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem among 2.7 million Palestinians.
The World Court has ruled that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal. Many Canada Goose Outlet Jewish settlers claim a God given right to the West Bank, which they call by the biblical names Judea and Samaria.
Reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta in canada goose clearance sale Ramallah; Writing by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Noah Barkin.
