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May 13, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090512/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyisraelus_20090512141443;_ylt=Aj3T9es5hTGbcAt_bAZjcZaaOrgF

Israeli PM Favors "Natural Growth" of Existing Settlements

[AFP] Ron Bousso - "[Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu will insist on Israel's right to construct within existing settlement blocs in order to sustain their natural growth," Zalman Shoval, a close confidante of Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to Washington, said Tuesday. "He will also make a clear commitment not to build new settlements." Netanyahu will argue that President George W. Bush said in a letter to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004 that large settlement blocs will remain under Israeli control in any future peace deal. "The previous U.S. administration made a clear commitment on the large settlement blocs. It is not possible not to build there," Shoval said.

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