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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: Barak urges U.S. to rethink settlement stand Reuters - Wednesday, June 3 By Dan Williams ADVERTISEMENT WASHINGTON - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak lobbied the United States on Tuesday to rethink its demand to curb Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a dispute that has strained ties as the allies try to close ranks against Iran. A U.S.-sponsored 2003 peace "road map" requires that Israel stop expanding the settlements, whose presence on occupied land where Palestinians seek a state was deemed illegal by the World Court. Israel, which says previous U.S. President George W. Bush tacitly agreed that new settler homes could go up to match population growth, has been taken aback by the Obama administration's repeated public calls for a halt. Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said a total settlement freeze "would not be reasonable" -- risking a diplomatic showdown with Western powers keen to revive Palestine talks and stabilise the wider Middle East. Barak, who has responsibilities for the West Bank, met U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones on Tuesday to ask for greater flexibility on the settlement issue, but the discussion ended without agreement, an Israeli official said. An Obama administration official described the meeting as constructive, adding that Jones stressed to Barak "the need for all sides to fulfill their commitments under the road map and to take steps to create a climate conductive to negotiations." President Barack Obama briefly joined the two at their White House meeting. He was to leave later on a Middle East peace promotion tour that will include stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world on Thursday. The Israeli official said beforehand Barak would argue that stopping private construction in areas where Israel claims sovereignty risked harming Netanyahu's domestic standing and undermining his fractious coalition government, "not least given the unclear horizon on the Palestinian front." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has made efforts to meet his own road map requirement of reining in anti-Israel militias. But his is a divided polity, with rival Hamas Islamists ruling the Gaza Strip and refusing to coexist with the Jewish state. NON-STARTERS Barak is scheduled to meet U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday and Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday. "His visit is part of a long process of trying to manage this dispute," the Israeli official said. In a letter in 2004 to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Bush gave what Israel took as a presidential nod to its stated plan to annex major settlement blocs under any peace deal -- something the Palestinians have ruled out as a non-starter. Jones has championed projects to boost Abbas's security forces and the West Bank economy, hoping to provide Palestinians an attractive alternative to Hamas, whose Gaza fiefdom has been further impoverished by an international embargo. Netanyahu, however, has balked at giving Abbas powers that could be parlayed into sovereign rights, such as setting up an army. Israel fears that Hamas, having swept a 2006 election, might eventually expand its power base to the West Bank. Underscoring this concern is the rise of Iran, which backs Hamas and whose nuclear program Israel -- assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal -- considers a mortal threat. For now, Israel has quietly acceded to Obama's strategy of talking to Tehran about curtailing its uranium enrichment, a process with bomb-making potential. The Iranians say the program is for peaceful energy development. Helping allay Israeli anxieties is a multi-level missile shield helmed by Barak and underwritten by the United States. Israeli officials said Barak hoped to settle a disagreement over whether the top tier should be Arrow III, an interceptor favoured by Israel that would be produced jointly by Israelis and Americans, or a land version of a U.S. system known as Aegis, which some in Washington are pushing. A seaborne Aegis is already stationed in the Mediterranean and a U.S. official said Gates could offer to ship it to Israel's shores should there be a flareup with Iran. Barak, formerly Israel's most decorated soldier, heads the centre-left Labour party and is remembered in Washington as both warrior and peacemaker. In 2000, as Israeli prime minister during President Bill Clinton's administration, he led short-lived negotiations with the Palestinians and Syria. 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