(Washington Post) Molly Moore - Israeli Prime Minister Sharon accepted the Defense Ministry's final plan on Sunday for a swath of houses, apartments, and public facilities that would connect the settlement of Maale Adumim, with 30,000 residents, just east of Jerusalem, to the eastern borders of the city, Raanan Gissin, the prime minister's spokesman, said Monday. The Israeli government gave initial approval to the plan in 1999. Gissin cited a letter delivered to Sharon by Bush last April saying: "new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers" would likely preclude "a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949."
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