{"id":33131,"date":"2012-12-17T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33131"},"modified":"2012-12-17T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:58:03","slug":"aljazeera-israel-approves-1500-more-settler-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/17\/aljazeera-israel-approves-1500-more-settler-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"AlJazeera: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has approved a construction plan to build 1,500 housing units in annexed East Jerusalem, prompting the Palestinians to warn they would seek a UN Security Council meeting on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Efrat Orbach, Israel\u2019s interior ministry spokeswoman, said on Monday that the ministry&#8217;s planning committee had given developers the go-ahead but told applicants to trim their request to build 1,600 new housing units at Ramat Shlomo to 1,500 and resubmit it &#8220;for final approval&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The plan caused a diplomatic rift with Washington when it was first announced in 2010 as US Vice President Joe Biden met top Israeli officials in Jerusalem to boost Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>It has lain dormant since August 2011 but two weeks ago the ministry announced that it had been revived.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian leadership said on Monday it would seek a UN Security Council meeting over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership is about to take &#8220;important and necessary measures against Israel&#8217;s settlement building, including recourse to the UN Security Council, to prevent implementation of these decisions,&#8221; Nabil Abu Rudeina, President Mahmoud Abbas&#8217;s spokesman, told AFP news agency<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2012\/12\/2012121717843819903.html\" title=\"Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has approved a construction plan to build 1,500 housing units in annexed East Jerusalem, prompting the Palestinians to warn they would seek a UN Security Council meeting on the issue. Efrat Orbach, Israel\u2019s interior ministry spokeswoman, said on Monday that the ministry&#8217;s planning committee had given developers the go-ahead but told applicants to trim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33132,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33131\/revisions\/33132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}