The steps, by two separate agencies, are the latest in a series of clumsy, timed housing announcements. Ways search on international player, who last year into the ground to a halt in September, when passed a partial Israeli moratorium on new building in the settlements, Israeli Palestinian peace talks resume.
Washington has given its efforts to convince Israel to commit an additional settlement freeze; the Palestinians refuse to, negotiations with Israel as long as building settlement.
On Monday, a municipal planning Committee in Jerusalem gave provisional approval for almost 1,000 new housing units in the residential district of Gilo, in the South of the city. And the Israeli Ministry of Defense said it zoning plans for more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, retroactive legalization construction, which was already under way were completed.
Aides traveling with Mr Peres, refused on Monday in Washington was, commenting on the plan.
Elie Isaacson, Advisor of Mayor NIR Barkat of Jerusalem, said there was no connection between the action of Gilo and the timing of Mr Peres visit.
"There are no secrets whatsoever," said Mr Isaacson. "The plan by a bureaucratic level is bureaucratic level to the next." "The buildings policy in Jerusalem has the same 40 years."
He added that area of the privately owned was land before 10 years for construction zones, and that it would take at least five years for the new housing final approval and for the contractor to follow way. And he said, in the Community whereas draws hundreds of requests from Palestinians for building in Jerusalem, despite Palestinian projects on a smaller scale tend to.
Mr Peres is expected to speak with Mr Obama of security cooperation between Israel and the United States; the recent upheavals in the Middle East and the potential for the democratisation in the region; and ways of restarting the peace talks. A question that may arise is whether Mr Obama go to Israel this year will be to make a major speech, and if so whether he is provided an American peace plan. Management officials say Mr Obama has said, he would like to address of Israelis to a range of issues, including the turbulence in the Middle East development. But timing remains a problem, an administration of official said Monday.
The role of President in Israel is mainly a ceremonial, but Mr Peres, is internationally regarded as an elder statesman, has a more active role than most of his predecessors. Relations between Mr Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Mr Peres were met from beginning of cool, and in a departure from the diplomatic standards, Mr Obama in 2009, Mr Netanyahu has to try to smooth the way.
The question of the settlement construction has hooked strongly Israeli American relations, because Mr Obama took office.
Gilo is in a part of the city that Israel annexed to the record it from Jordan in the 1967 war. Most Israelis consider it an integral area of Jerusalem, but to the Palestinians and much of the world, it is a settlement in the occupied territory in violation of international law. Israel's claim to sovereignty in the area of Jerusalem on the 1967 lines is not internationally recognised, and the Palestinians claim as part of their future State.
February 14, a resolution supported the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council demanding halt in called it illegal construction in Israeli settlements so. Only a veto of the United States block the resolution.
Peace now, an Israeli advocacy group that against all Israeli building beyond the 1967 lines, said that the Department of Defense development plans approved for four settlements in the West Bank. But it is not clear whether the plans relating to areas that are already above or integrated for more sites.
Tensions over building in Jerusalem reached here American support for Israel to underline in March 2010, when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was on a visit. Administration announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem, the Obama annoying the Israeli Ministry of the Interior. Mr Netanyahu said at the time, which had attacked the movement; the Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, Chairman of the party agents right, insisted that the timing was coincidental.
After this episode, Prime of Minister's Office said it would pursue to prevent the progress of the building plans more carefully new surprises.
But in November, Israel published plans for more than 1,000 residential units in other disputed areas of Jerusalem. This announcement was days before Mr Netanyahu with Mr Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the United States, drawing criticism from Mr Obama fulfilled.
Mr Netanyahu were Office known weeks three ago, that hundreds of new units for settlements in the West Bank in areas Israel intends to keep under any deal with the Palestinians, have been approved. The news came shortly after five members of one family, including three children, were killed in the settlement of Itamar.
Helene Cooper contributed reporting from Washington.
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