The Palestinians will withdraw from peace talks with Israel if construction in the settlements resumes, Mahmoud Abbas told the Mideast Quartet.
The World Zionist Congress passed a resolution endorsing a two-state solution and a West Bank settlement freeze.
When she is surrounded by a swirl of conversation she cannot understand, my two-year-old granddaughter turns to me expectantly: \”What they talking about, Bubbe?\” Right now, I would have to confess to her that the hubbub over 1,600 new housing units in Jerusalem defies rational explanation.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday called a freeze in West Bank settlements a \’national necessity,\’ a day after he approved building permits for nearly 500 new housing units in six separate blocs.
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