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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 OK for new settler homes outrages Palestinians AFP - Saturday, September 5 JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israel will approve construction of West Bank settlement homes before it considers a freeze sought by Washington, a top government official said on Friday, sparking Palestinian outrage. ADVERTISEMENT The plan was also deemed regrettable by the US administration, which has pushed for a freeze of Jewish settlements in an effort to restart the stalled Middle East peace process. "In the next days the prime minister will approve construction starts and then he might consider a freeze for a limited time under certain conditions," the official told AFP, asking not to be identified. He confirmed a Jerusalem Post report saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would consider a construction moratorium "for a few months" after the green light is given to build hundreds of new homes in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and top negotiator Saeb Erakat sharply denounced the move. "That is not acceptable," Abbas said after talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy. "We want a freeze on settlement and the launch of negotiations on the final phase of it." Erakat went further, saying "the only thing suspended by this announcement will be the peace process." White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Israel's reported plans were "inconsistent" with its international commitments to the peace process. "We regret the reports of Israel's plans to approve additional settlement construction," Gibbs said in a statement. France also expressed its objection saying such a move was "totally contrary" to Israel's peace commitments. "Our position is without any ambiguity. We condemn it," said foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana meanwhile called on Israel to halt all building work at Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The international community considers all Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal and a major hurdle to Middle East peace efforts that have been at a standstill since December. Israeli media said work on 2,500 housing units already under way would continue as part of the plan widely seen as an attempt to appease far right-wing members of Netanyahu's hawkish Likud party. The Jerusalem Post said any temporary moratorium on construction would happen if "conditions are right," including if Arab states move forward with the normalisation of ties that Israel is seeking. The Haaretz newspaper said Netanyahu told US officials of his decision to authorise construction a few weeks ago. "The Americans do not agree and are not happy about it, but we put it on the table a long time ago," an unnamed senior official told the paper. Israeli media said Netanyahu would take up the issue with Washington's Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who is due to return to the region next week. The mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily called the move "one giant leap for the right wing in Israel, one small step for mankind." "Netanyahu is walking a thin political wire," the paper said. "In order not to bring down on himself a rebellion in the Likud faction, he has to sweeten the suspension pill with promises to approve construction plans for hundreds of housing units before the agreement goes into effect; but he has to do this without betraying the trust of the Americans, without giving the Arab states a good excuse to get out of the agreement." On Thursday, Israel's Channel 2 television said the partial freeze would last for nine months and affect only the West Bank -- home to 300,000 Israelis -- and not east Jerusalem, where a further 200,000 settlers live. The Palestinians have refused to resume peace talks until Israel freezes all construction in the West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, which they want as the capital of their future state. "Concerning the peace process, we reaffirmed that we were entirely disposed to go forward with negotiations for the final status if Israel stops settlement building," Abbas said in Paris on Thursday. 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