Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that houses would be built at the controversial ???ar ???oma construction site in southeastern Jerusalem by the next elections. Netanyahu made his remarks, which came in a meeting with members of the National Religious Party, on the eve of a scheduled meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to discuss Israeli proposals for breaking the deadlocked peace process.
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