Israel’s Cabinet approved a plan that would extend Jerusalem’s administrative authority over eight West Bank settlements. The United States had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reconsider the plan, which it called “provocative.” Netanyahu labeled as “absurd” American objections to the plan, which would also annex several western suburbs within Israel’s pre-1967 borders to the municipality.
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