| 41. | Mahathir has criticized local authorities for their slowness in dealing with illegal settlements, allowing the settlements to grow larger.
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| 42. | Their illegal settlements are not just an eye-sore but a large stumbling block to social equity and advancement.
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| 43. | The action was the first sign the government would not tolerate illegal settlement activity and was welcomed by peace groups.
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| 44. | Palestinians claim the Arab section as their capital and label the Jewish neighborhoods built in the annexed area illegal settlements.
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| 45. | Palestinians denounce all of these as illegal settlements and claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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| 46. | However, illegal settlements in conservation areas have continued the advance of urban sprawl into ecologically sensitive and protected areas.
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| 47. | Last June, he helped found a defiant, illegal settlement, Ma'ale Yisrael, on the West Bank.
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| 48. | They maintain all settlements are illegal and object to what they say is a false distinction between legal and illegal settlements.
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| 49. | City supervisor Jose Luis Torre Blanca called them illegal settlements, built with no city oversight or adherence to building codes.
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| 50. | The action was the first sign the government would not tolerate illegal settlement activity, and was welcomed by peace groups.
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