ISRAEL: Approval of 900 new homes in East Jerusalem draws ire ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - August 4, 2011 - 12:00am Israel's Interior Ministry gave the final green light Thursday to the construction of more than 900 new homes in a Jewish development built on land seized during the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians and anti-settlement groups said the Har Homa expansion, which has been working its way through Israeli regulatory agencies since last year, will occupy one of the last remaining undeveloped hillsides in the area and effectively cut off direct access between Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Bethlehem. » Read more