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Rice calls for Israel to stop building in West Bank
Kim Sengupta, The Independent, Aug 27, 2008

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Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, warned Israel yesterday that continuing to build settlements in the occupied territories risked undermining the peace process with the Palestinians. Ms Rice's criticism of the Israeli government came as the monitoring group Peace Now revealed that building in the West Bank had doubled from 240 in the same period in 2007 to 443 this year. [Read the full article]

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