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The Rest of the World Report | August 21, 2026 — Morning Edition
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THE WORLD SAYS NO
Israel’s Housing Ministry issued tenders this week for more than 1,200 housing units in the E1 settlement area near Jerusalem, advancing a plan first approved last August that critics say would make a Palestinian state geographically impossible. The project would create a continuous bloc of Jewish settlement from East Jerusalem into the West Bank, splitting the territory into a northern and southern half and cutting occupied East Jerusalem off from the rest of what Palestinians…
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