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Article: ARABS ISRAEL RLATIONS - May 28 - Israel Insists On Some Construction In West Bank Settlements.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- May 30, 2009
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Israel insist that it wants to reach an understanding with the US on construction in West Bank settlements, despite a blunt call by the Obama administration to completely freeze all work. A government spokesman, Mark Regev, had said a day earlier that the final status of the existing settlements would be determined in negotiations with the Palestinians. "In the interim, normal life should be allowed to continue in those communities", he said then. On May 28, after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated the US position that all settlement activity must halt, Regev reiterated the Israeli position that no new settlements would be built but that "normal life" in ...