State Dept: Israeli settlement activity must stop
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A senior US official on Monday refuted reports in the New York Times last week that Washington had given its tacit approval to continued expansion in existing West Bank settlements.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians accused the United States on Sunday of destroying hopes of negotiations with Israel for a Palestinian state, after Washington signalled it could accept some growth of settlements in the West Bank.
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HAR GILO, West Bank  - Israel plans to build 530  new settler homes in the occupied West Bank after Washington  softened its opposition to growth in Jewish enclaves, a policy  shift Palestinians say will make peace impossible.
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JERUSALEM - Palestinian leaders on Sunday accused the United States of harming prospects for Mideast peace after the latest indications that Washington is ready to accept some Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements.    The New York Times reported Saturday that the United States will now tacitly support construction in built-up areas of major Jewish settlements, while remaining opposed to housing activity in undeveloped areas...
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 3 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday appealed to the Palestinians to immediately end a new wave of internal fighting that has killed a dozen people and has further threatened to unravel the troubled Palestinian Authority.
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Palestinians react angrily to reports the US is willing to accept Jewish settlement construction.
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A top UN official warns the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not end without international involvement.
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The United States wants Israel to further explain an Israeli official&#39;s statement that Israel aims to freeze the peace process and effectively deny the Palestinians a state, a US official said on Thursday.
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Israel's attorney general has temporarily halted the government's plan to cut back on electricity to the Gaza Strip, demanding more work to prevent humanitarian harm.
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Israel says it is committed to acting 'expeditiously' to dismantle unauthorised West Bank settlements
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The State Department brushed aside statements by the Palestinian leader condemning bloody suicide bombings in southern Israel and said Hamas must be put out of business.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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The United States withheld judgment Tuesday on whether Israel's plans to build 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank violate the U.S-led Middle East peace plan.
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Jerusalem, Oct 07 - The United States has asked Israel to clarify a statement made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s senior advisor Dov Weisglass, which said Tel Aviv&#39;s disengagement plan meant a &quot;freezing of the peace process,&quot; media reported here.
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Israel announced plans Monday for 500 new housing units in the West Bank, after an apparent U.S. policy shift that has infuriated the Palestinians. The Palestinians oppose all Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, lands where they hope to establish an independent state.
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Israel announced plans Monday to build hundreds of new housing units in the West Bank, following an apparent US policy shift on settlements that the Palestinians warned &quot;will destroy the peace process.
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The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha Council) has publicized a statement in which it calls on settlers to actively disobey the government&#39;s execution of the disengagement and compensation law for removal of all Jewish settlements