The Bush administration will not deduct, for now, the cost of Israeli settlements from U.S. loan guarantees to Israel. The State Department was expected to notify Congress on Tuesday of the amount it would deduct from the loan guarantees because of Israeli spending on Jewish towns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But a State Department official told JTA that the Sept. 30 deadline in the law was for a report to Congress, not for a determination of the deduction.
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