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Sat 03 Mar 2010Brief moment of truth in US-Israeli relations passes as row abates

AMERICA: The crisis over housing in east Jerusalem has shown the desperate need for consistency in US Middle East policy

THERE IS one fact so obvious in the spat between Israel and the US over housing in east Jerusalem that no one here has bothered to state it: Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal under international law.