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While State Department officials are insisting they are still considering an $800 million supplemental aid package to Israel, the chance of that happening this year appears unlikely, according to a U.S. official familiar with the situation.

For some, the notion of an Israeli settler in the West Bank or Gaza Strip conjures up the image of a yarmulke- wearing, gun-toting zealot hunkered down in a far-flung, Arab-surrounded enclave. So Jerome and Sharyn Blaustein say they want to set the record