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Israel to reach agreement on settlements with US this week
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 09 - 2009


Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to
sign an agreement with the United States this week regarding
settlement activity in the West Bank, Israeli newspaper Haaretz
reported Sunday night, according to dpa.
Netanyahu on Sunday showed his cabinet to ministers the agreement,
to be signed during the visit Thursday in Israel of George Mitchell,
US special envoy to the Middle East.
Netanyahu would not refer to the "freeze" of construction or any
"moratorium" in settlement activity in the West Bank and would
instead accept "reducing the scale of construction," Haaretz
reported.
The Israeli response to international pressure to stop settlement
construction in the West Bank would, however, be signed after Israeli
Defence Minister Ehud Barak gave the green light Sunday to the
construction of 500 new apartments in the West Bank.
The Israeli Defence Ministry Sunday night was to authorize the
building of 500 new housing units in six of the biggest settlements
in the West Bank ahead the visit of Mitchell to Israel.
"The settlement building authorizations will be regretted for
generations," said Yariv Oppenheimer, secretary general of the
Israeli organization Peace Now.
"The Israeli government prefers to bend to the demands of the
Yesha Council, thus endangering the national interests of the state
of Israel, destroying relations with the international community and
burying chances for reaching a two-state solution.
Likud Knesset member Danny Danon said: "We were chosen to lead, to
say no to a Palestinian state and no to a West Bank settlement
freeze."
Israel's reported intention to temporarily suspend construction in
West Bank settlements is only a "strategic pause," Interior Minister
Eli Yishai of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said Sunday morning.
US President Barack Obama has demanded that Israel freeze all
construction in West Bank settlements. Netanyahu replied that while
Israel would not build any new settlements, it would continue with
construction in existing ones to accommodate population expansion,
so-called "natural growth."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has conditioned a restart of
suspended peace talks on a total Israeli settlement construction
halt.


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