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PA Presidency: Israeli Settlement Tender 'harms Peace'
Israel's Housing Ministry published tenders on Tuesday for 827 new houses in illegal settlement Har Homa, between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The new settler neighborhood will extend Har Homa to the south and east towards Beit Sahour, the report said. Director of Israeli rights group Ir Amim Judith Oppenheimer told the daily the construction would make permanent the separation between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Paleostinian presidency front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the decision "does not encourage the resumption of negotiations," official PA news agency Wafa reported. He called on the international community, and the Middle East  Quartet... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... in particular, to stop Israeli settlement building in the interests of peace. The last round of direct peace negotiations collapsed in September 2010 when Netanyahu refused to extend a partial freeze on illegal settlement building. Israeli and PLO envoys held five meetings in Amman in January, but the preliminary talks failed to yield full scale negotiations. Next wee, a delegation of Paleostinian officials will deliver a letter from President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu to outline the PLO's position on the grinding of the peace processor, a presidential adviser said Wednesday. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-05 |
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