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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188401
Israel Won't Extend Building Freeze, Despite U.S., EU and Egyptian Pressure
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior ministers, a forum known as the septet, decided this week not to extend the construction freeze in the settlements. Since a cabinet decision was needed to put the freeze into effect last November, another cabinet decision would be needed to extend it, and the septet decided, before Netanyahu's meeting in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, not to ask for an extension.