The Israeli parliament voted late Monday to retroactively legalize
several thousand Jewish homes built in the West Bank, a move that could
complicate what had seemed to be a warming relationship with the United
States.
But the measure still faces steep obstacles,
including legal challenges that could land it before Israel's Supreme
Court, where the attorney general has said he will not argue in defense
of it.
Monday's contentious vote took place after
Israel said it had started demolishing a small Jewish settlement deemed
illegal by the Supreme Court because it was on private Palestinian land.
Settlers and their supporters had been pushing the new legislation as a
way to avoid similar rulings in other unauthorized communities built in
occupied territory. But critics say the measure is illegal and would
make peace with the Palestinians even more difficult.
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