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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					16/01/2011 &#8211; 04:13 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211; The  Jerusalem Planning and Construction Committee will discuss next week  approval of the largest yet settlement project outside the Green Line in  East Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The project, expanding the Gilo  settlement&#8217;s borders toward the West Bank, will include the construction  of more than 1,400 residential units, commercial buildings, roads, and  parks, and is expected to attract international criticism.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Political clashes with the US pressured  the Planning Committee, which is subsidiary to Israel&#8217;s Jerusalem  municipality, to pull the breaks on several smaller settlement projects  in the area a little over a year ago.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;This is a more dangerous plan than its  predecessors because of the mass of construction planned, and also  because it is construction on the edges of Gilo and not inside the  borders of the neighborhood,&#8221; said Jerusalem councilman Meir Margalit.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Yariv Oppenheimer, General Manager of the  Israeli Peace Now movement, expressed deep concern that the project  would spark international reaction and harm Israel&#8217;s already  deteriorating status.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It is the largest settlement project  outside of the Green Line, exceeding the size of the Har Homa and Ramat  Shlomo settlements, which have strained Israel-world relations,  Oppenheimer said.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7gFPiCAZtA%2fZQmXuHVtJriYed47ZAEvGT9Rpm7oAXLRTfgikMwvQKn9yciwd8xKVTS49XBQvQpI%2b5xkcrNKQc24IpCcO%2bjh%2fhW0CMNqmOREY%3d">Israeli planners may approve largest beyond Green Line settlement project yet</a>.</p>
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