Israel shrugs off Mitchell's loan threat
Israel's finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, said on Sunday that Israel could do without loan guarantees after US envoy George Mitchell told PBS last week that the US could consider withholding the guarantees if Israel doesn't stop settlement construction.
Palestinian construction workers work at a new housing development in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa in east Jerusalem, Dec. 28.
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