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-- short of that, ending the 43 year occupation, repressive and illegal under international law.
The Contentious Settlement Construction Issue
Netanyahu's December 10 month moratorium was bogus and deceptive. Construction perhaps slowed but never stopped, a topic an earlier article addressed, accessed through the following link:
In August, the Israeli Peace Now group launched an anti-settlement campaign, explaining moratorium violations. It concluded by saying "there is almost no freeze or even a visible slowdown, despite the fact that legal construction starts have been prohibited for eight months. It also means that....Israel is not enforcing the moratorium."
In September, Peace Now updated its information headlining, "13,000 housing units can be built without further government approval," saying:
-- 2,066 are ready for immediate construction - where "ground works have already begun or the construction permit has already been approved;"
-- hundreds more are also ready to go, but ground work construction hasn't begun;
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