The area in Jerusalem that will be used as residential / Reuters
JERUSALEM - Once again the Jerusalem Municipality approved the construction of approximately 924 new apartment, new friction threatens Israel during the presidential visit to the White House.
Although this development will take several years, but development in the Gilo area appeared to be provoked anger Palestinians.
Israeli President Shimon Peres is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama on Tuesday to find a way to start peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
Palestinians themselves reject negotiations over Israel still building settlements for Jews in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories occupied by Israel which Palestinians claim as their future state.
Obama, Palestinians and other international community considers the construction by Israel in the West Bank and east Jerusalem are illegal settlements.
Israel has made the area east of Jerusalem a Jewish settlement since taken over from the power of Jordan, along the West Bank, at the time of the Middle East war in 1967. Approximately 200 thousand Jews now live in the region along with 250 thousand Palestinians.
As quoted from the Associated Press, Tuesday (05/04/2011), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself said that he would not divide Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of the peace.
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