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More Jerusalem construction as Netanyahu wraps up tense US visit

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published March 24, 2010.

White House officials are mostly staying silent after President Obama met privately with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday evening. The two leaders meet at a tense moment in US-Israel relations, following a second announcement of more settlement construction in east Jerusalem. The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality approved the construction of 20 more units for Jewish settlers in an area near the Shepherd Hotel, in occupied East Jerusalem. From Bethlehem, FSRN's Ghassan Bannoura Reports.