Jerusalem is excluded from any settlement freeze

[ 19/11/2010 – 09:16 PM ]

 

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority stressed that “east Jerusalem” will not be included in any future settlement freeze.

Israeli officials said that the US administration has agreed to exclude east Jerusalem from the US proposed 90-day freeze on settlement building and that no other freeze on settlement building in the West Bank will be asked for by the US after the 90-day freeze is over.

Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, said that any future moratorium on settlement building will no cover Jerusalem adding that Israel differentiates between the West Bank and east Jerusalem and that the previous settlement freeze was not applied to Jerusalem, likewise any future freeze will not apply to Jerusalem.

The right wing Shas party demanded that the US provides written guarantees. The party was promised by the war minister Ehud Barak, that if they refrained from voting on the US proposals, he would approve the building of hundreds of settlement units in West Bank settlements immediately after the end of the freeze.

Reuters reported Friday  that the United States is prepared to offer Israel written security guarantees if it would help to restart stalled Middle East peace talks.

Jerusalem is excluded from any settlement freeze.

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