Palestine Demands Freeze On Settlement Growth ; Pressure Builds Ahead of U.S. Peace Summit
The Washington Times › November 19, 2007
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Palestinians have told the United States they will accept nothing less than a total freeze in Jewish settlement building ahead of a conference on statehood, a top Palestinian official said yesterday.
Western diplomats say Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under Western and Arab pressure to go beyond the partial freeze he was expected to announce before the U.S.-sponsored conference planned this month as a way to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.See the full content of this document
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Palestine Demands Freeze On Settlement Growth ; Pressure Builds Ahead of U.S. Peace Summit
The diplomats say Mr. Olmert sought to exempt the occupied West Bank's major settlement blocs, which Isr...
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