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Sun 04 Apr 2003Israeli activists condemn latest settler moveJewish families are moving into a new settlement in Arab East Jerusalem in what peace activists say is a recipe for violence ahead of the presentation of a US-backed "road map" for Israeli-Palestinian peace.Eyal Hareuveni, director of the Jerusalem branch of the Israeli group Peace Now, said he suspected the settlers' move was made during the war in Iraq to avoid criticism from a preoccupied United States.