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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Israel to keep expanding settlements: Netanyahu AFP - Monday, May 25 JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will continue to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank despite calls by main ally the United States to stop. ADVERTISEMENT The hawk also referred to a "Palestinian state" for the first time since re-assuming his post on March 31, but stopped short of backing the principle that is the cornerstone of international Middle East peace making efforts. "I have no intention to construct new settlements, but it makes no sense to ask us not to answer to the needs of natural growth and to stop all construction," a senior official quoted him as telling the cabinet. During Netanyahu's first official visit to key ally Washington last week, US President Barack Obama told him that "settlements must be stopped," a call echoed by other senior administration officials and on Capitol Hill. Israeli settlements in the West Bank are one of the major stumbling blocks in the halting Middle East peace process, which Obama has vowed to push forward despite a new largely right-wing government in Israel that backs settlements. Briefing the ministers on his Washington trip, Netanyahu said that "clearly we need to have some reservations about a Palestinian state in a final status agreement... when we reach an agreement on substance, we will reach agreement on terminology." It was the first time since he returned to the prime minister's post that Netanyahu publicly said the words "Palestinian state." But he stopped short of endorsing the concept, backed by Washington, to which Israel committed under the 2003 "roadmap" Middle East peace plan. "If we talk about a Palestinian state, we have to first and foremost verify what kind of sovereignty and rights this state will have," a senior official quoted Netanyahu as saying. "We have to make sure that we are not threatened," Netanyahu was quoted as saying, referring to previous Israeli demands that such a state be demilitarised. Netanyahu also vowed to deal with settlement outposts in the West Bank, those that the Israeli government itself considers illegal but that most ministers in the government do not want to dismantle. "We will take care of them," he said. "If possible by dialogue. There is no doubt that we have committed ourselves to deal with them." Earlier on Sunday ultra-nationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out a return to Israel's pre-1967 borders, saying such a move "would not end the conflict, would not guarantee peace or security. It would simply move the conflict to within the '67 borders," he said, referring to Israel. Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and east Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and, except for Gaza, continues to occupy the territories that today are home to about half a million Jewish settlers. The new Israeli cabinet largely opposes dismantling the settlement outposts, an idea to which the Jewish state committed itself under the "roadmap." Defence Minister Ehud Barak, whose Labour party is the most liberal member of the Netanyahu cabinet, backed the idea of removing outposts, but spoke of 22 such structures -- a number several times lower than that of watchdog groups. "We should deal with the remaining 22 (outposts) in a responsible and correct way," he said. "First by talking and if that doesn't work then unilaterally." Under the roadmap plan, Israel undertook to dismantle all outposts in the West Bank constructed after March 2001, with an Israeli commission later determining there were 26 such structures. The Peace Now anti-settlement group, however, says that more than 50 outposts have been erected since March 2001 and that at present the West Bank has more than 100 outposts. The international community considers all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. The main settler organisation Yesha blasted Netanyahu's statements, saying that he "should respect the wishes of voters who voted en masse for parties that are in favour of continuing construction in Judea and Samaria," the Israeli name for the West Bank. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: World 30 hurt in clash at Sikh temple in AustriaAFP - Monday, May 25 UK-World SummaryReuters - Monday, May 25 Darfur rebels seize town from Sudan troops: UNAFP - Monday, May 25 Iran summit vows to fight drugs, extremismAFP - Monday, May 25 Darfur fighters take Sudan army baseReuters - Monday, May 25 Enlarge Photo The Jewish settlement outpost of Nofei Nechemia just south of the West Bank city of Nablus. The term 'outpost' denotes a settlement which has not been authorised by the Israeli government. Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will continue to build inside settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite calls from the United States to stop such activity. 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