Israel signals readiness to limit settlement building for peace

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Source: Reuters

Israel signals readiness to limit settlement building for peace

JERUSALEM | Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:33pm EDT

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Monday that Israel was ready to confine Jewish settlement expansion to the blocs of occupied territory it wants to keep under any peace deal with the Palestinians, in a nod to U.S. efforts to revive stalled negotiations.

Settlement construction was cited as a key reason for the breakdown of U.S.-sponsored peace talks in 2010, and a stumbling block to Secretary of State John Kerry's latest efforts to revive negotiations towards founding a Palestinian state in land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

Netanyahu told Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he wanted to resume peace talks, but that construction in the settlements in the West Bank would continue, "and continues today".

He added, though, that "we have to be smart about it, not just correct".

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/10/us-palestinians-israel-idUSBRE9590YJ20130610

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1. That's a signal?

SETI satellites aren't strong enough to pick up a signal that faint.

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2. Meaning that he intends to keep all settlement blocks,

roads, infrastructure, fences, armed IDF patrols, the water and resources, and of course all of area C.
And he won't encourage new settlements on areas he won't outright annex.

Yup, that sounds like Israel.

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3. Netanyahu: Palestinian talks conditions 'insurmountable'

Palestinian preconditions for peace talks make a return to negotiations impossible for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

"To me the setting of preconditions is an insurmountable obstacle," Netanyahu told the foreign affairs and defense committee, a parliamentary statement said.

The PLO says it will only return to negotiations if Israel stops building on occupied Palestinian land and if Israel agrees to negotiate on the basis of the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.

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