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JERUSALEM (Oct. 18) -- Even before it was finished, Albert Abu Zgheibreh's majestic new home in Beit Jala earned a special name in the neighborhood: Al Qasr -- The Palace. With its fine stone carvings, sweeping balconies and soaring arches, the three-story, 16,000-square-foot house stood on a promontory with commanding views across the valley from Bethlehem to the southern Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But in 2000, before its owner had even moved in, the opulent building was used as a snipers' nest by Palestinian gunmen and shelled to pieces by Israeli tanks. For nearly a decade, the ravaged ...
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By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Obama administration said Tuesday that it was "dismayed" with Israel's plans to allow 900 housing units to be built in Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem considered a settlement by the United Nations, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The units, which would attempt to attract wealthy residents, will be built across the "Green Line," a 1949 armistice border drawn around the edge of Jerusalem after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. "At a time when we are working to re-launch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said ...
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