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2023-02-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel promises not to approve additional West Bank outposts
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[An Nahar] Israel has told the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
 ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
it will rein in the approval of new West Bank settlement outposts, the prime minister's office said Monday, a day after a potential diplomatic crisis was averted at the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
over Israeli-Paleostinian tensions.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not greenlight any new wildcat settlements in the West Bank beyond nine such outposts built without authorization that it approved retroactively earlier this month. The statement, however, made no mention of the thousands of additional settlement homes in existing settlements officials say are to be soon approved.
A contentious U.N. Security Council resolution pushed by the Paleostinians and their supporters slated for Monday would have condemned Israel for settlement expansion and demanded a halt to future activity. According to multiple diplomats, the Biden administration managed to forestall the vote by convincing both Israel and the Paleostinians to agree in principle to a six-month freeze in any unilateral action they might take.
"Israel notified the U.S. that in the coming months it will not authorize new settlements beyond the nine that have already been approved," Netanyahu's office said.
Dozens of unauthorized outposts dot the occupied West Bank, in addition to scores of existing settlements. These outposts, which sometimes are little more than a handful of trailer homes but can also resemble small villages, are built without authorization but are often tolerated and even encouraged by Israeli governments. The international community considers all Israeli construction on occupied land to be illegitimate or illegal.
The U.N. vote presented a headache for the Biden administration at a time when it is focusing its diplomatic efforts on Russia's war with Ukraine, which is coming up on one year this week. Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday.
It also highlighted the deep differences between Biden's administration, which supports Paleostinian statehood and opposes settlements, and the Israeli government, which is made up of ultranationalists who oppose Paleostinian independence and have pledged to ramp up settlement building. 
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