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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/middleeast/23settle.html
After Freeze, Settlement Building Booms in West Bank
(New York Times) Ethan Bronner - In the three months since Israel ended its settlement construction freeze in the West Bank, a building boom has begun. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, said the building is only in existing settlements and the government had not expropriated more land for settlements. The construction going on now, he said, "will not in any way change the final map of peace." Elie Isaacson, a spokesman for Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, said the municipality did not build for either Jews or Palestinians specifically, because that would be discriminatory. "We see it as our job to take care of all residents of Jerusalem, east and west, and dividing the building by race is both illegal and immoral."