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Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=40526
Senior U.S. Official: No Refugees to Israel, Settlement Blocs to Remain
[IMRA/Yediot Ahronot-Hebrew] Yediot Ahronot correspondent Nahum Barnea reported Sunday on a conversation in Washington with a senior U.S. government official that included the following remarks: "The Bush Administration is committed to the president's 14 April 2004 letter: the solution is a Palestinian state and not the return of refugees to Israel. In her last visit ten days ago, Secretary of State Rice heard opposition to the Israeli settlement blocs remaining in the area of the West Bank from the Palestinians. They said that this impairs Palestinian movement. We told them that this is a problem that has to be dealt with, but the settlement blocs would remain. We made it clear to them that they must understand the reality: no Israeli prime minister can abandon communities where tens of thousands of Israelis live."