The United States plans to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a promise he made last September not to build in Ras al-Amud, a mostly Arab neighborhood near Jerusalem’s Old City. “We stand by the commitment that we received from the government of Israel last September” that “there will be no construction in that neighborhood and that the overall nature of the neighborhood will not change over time,” State Department deputy spokesman James Foley said. Last week, the Jerusalem municipality gave final approval to build some 130 new homes for Jews in the area.
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