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An Israeli settler waves a flag across the street from a left-wing protest in Jerusalem calling for the continuation of a building freeze September 26, 2010.
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By Ari Rabinovitch
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Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:12am EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel allowed its halt in construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to expire on Monday, defying a U.S. call to extend the moratorium and risking a Palestinian withdrawal from peace talks.
Minutes after the moratorium expired, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to continue "expedited, honest talks" to achieve a peace agreement within a year.
"Israel is ready to pursue continuous contacts in the coming days to find a way to continue peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority," he said in a statement.
Abbas told reporters in Paris late on Sunday: "If Israel chooses peace, we will continue to negotiate. If Israel doesn't it will be a waste of time."
Netanyahu has resisted calls from U.S. President Barack Obama to extend the construction freeze but the United States said on Sunday it was trying to ensure both sides continued to negotiate despite Israel's decision.
"Our policy on settlement construction has not changed. We remain in close touch with both parties and will be meeting with them again in the coming days," U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement.
"We remain focused on the goal of advancing negotiations toward a two-state solution and encourage the parties to take constructive actions toward that goal.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had twice spoken to Netanyahu on Sunday, he said.
Netanyahu, whose governing coalition is dominated by pro-settler parties, earlier urged Jewish settlers to show restraint before the freeze ended at midnight.
His plea to settlers appeared aimed at persuading Abbas not to carry out his threat to quit negotiations launched in Washington on September 2, unless the freeze were extended.
Palestinians say settlements will make it impossible for them to create a viable independent state and the issue is one of the core problems standing in the way of any peace agreement.
More than 430,000 Jews live in well over 100 settlements established across the West Bank and East Jerusalem on land that Israel captured from Jordan in a 1967 Middle East war. The World Court deems settlements illegal but Israel disputes this. Some 2.5 million Palestinians live in the same areas.
Netanyahu has held out the prospect of limiting the scope of renewed construction, a message he seemed to underscore in an official statement on Sunday.
"The prime minister calls on the residents in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the political parties to show restraint and responsibility today and in the future exactly as they showed restraint and responsibility throughout the months of the freeze," it said.
But settler leaders said they would begin erecting next week some 2,000 homes in the West Bank, where Netanyahu in November imposed under U.S. pressure a partial moratorium on housing starts.
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Sep 26, 2010 10:05pm EDT
after thousands of years believing in one(1) god but because you worship differently you hate each other.. Muslims(diff. sec’s).. Christians(diff sec’s)..Jews..Hindu so on..your all NUTS…I am glad the mother ship is coming to get me off this F’n ROCK..may the force be with you..MORON’s..
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Sep 26, 2010 10:40pm EDT
Israel knows where to go with her peace talk! Hypocrites!!! The earth and the human race will survive long after these parasites have perished!
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Sep 26, 2010 10:46pm EDT
Palestinians are like Nazis. They will never stop their hatred for the Israelis and goad them into appeasement, which the Jewish state knows does not work. Obama and Clinton should stop urging the Israeli government to appease and stay the hell out of the way. They have already done enough harm.
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Sep 26, 2010 10:50pm EDT
2 things visible from space -panel gaps on british cars and israeli arrogance -what do you do when a thief not only will not give back what he has stolen but starts stealing again ? UN needs to invade Israel and restore Palestine just like the Falklands and Kuwait were restored -no one, not even God’s chosen people, should profit from theft. The other Arab nations could put the screws on USA/israel by trading oil in euros or threatening to do so.
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Sep 26, 2010 10:56pm EDT
gus9, I think it is more like the world should have stayed the hell out of Adolf Hitler’s way, isn’t that what you meant? Don’t have any illusion, Peace is an illusion and a bit late now, but Israel will never know PEACE, not even in her dreams!!! Every stride Israel makes is delusive short term gains; her days under the shinning sun are numbered! Please, do the world a favor and stay on course!
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Sep 26, 2010 10:57pm EDT
phrage, hey, where have you been?
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Sep 27, 2010 12:16am EDT
Yahoo, ride ‘em cowboys, its time for more settlements, but we got all the $3Big Ones from our big US Daddy Warbucks and peace talk is just another paper. We don’t care ’bout no paper, we got our own law.
The only country in the world without borders has decided it can take money from us and black our eye by behaving like Germany in 1939.
If we said the Carter Peace Accords were just a piece of paper, we could only give money to the ones who abide by it, or, or maybe, give some to the ones whose lands have been taken and taken year after year, betcha Israel couldn’t afford to buy no stinking planes from us to shoot and steal no more from Palestin.
Enough of net and yahoo dip low macy.
Enforce international law and remove the illegal settlers.
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