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Netanyahu defies Obama call for settlement freeze
Mon Jun 1, 2009 3:15pm EDT
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defying U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a settlement freeze, said Monday Israel would continue to build in existing Jewish enclaves in occupied territory.
"Freezing life would not be reasonable," he told lawmakers.
But in an apparent gesture to Obama, who has sought to revive stalled peace talks and plans to address Muslims from Egypt Thursday, Israeli officials said Netanyahu might ease Israel's crippling blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
In a mark of passions mounting in the West Bank, Jewish settlers, enraged at troops' removal of a hilltop outpost, set fire to Palestinian fields and pelted motorists with rocks.
Netanyahu's pleas that settlement cannot be fully halted seem to be landing on stony ground in Washington under a new administration keen for Arab support. Diplomats say a range of possible measures are being reviewed by the United States and European Union to bring pressure to bear on their Israeli ally.
Talk of such sanctions prompted one senior Israeli official to complain: "The Netanyahu government is acting the same as its predecessors. The one who has changed policy is the American administration. The new administration is trying to get out of understandings achieved under the Bush administration."
Speaking to a parliamentary committee Monday, Netanyahu called for "reason and logic" in dealing with settlements in the West Bank, territory Israel captured in a 1967 war.
Obama, in office for just over four months to Netanyahu's two, has called for a full settlement freeze, under a 2003 peace "road map." His secretary of state Hillary Clinton said last week that included halting building in existing settlements.
"You can't freeze life" in the settlements, an official quoted Netanyahu as saying, defending his view that existing settlements must expand to accommodate growing families.
The right-wing coalition government has said it will remove unauthorized "outposts," mostly small hilltop camps, that Israel itself has not approved. The World Court has deemed all settlements, large and small, illegal.
In the West Bank, settlers set fire to Palestinian fields and scuffled with Israeli security forces who removed three caravans at one outpost near Nablus Monday.
Half a million Jews live in settlement blocs built in the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem -- areas where, with the Gaza Strip, Palestinians want to establish a state.
GAZA BLOCKADE
Israeli and Western officials said Netanyahu was considering a United Nations proposal to ease Israel's blockade of Gaza, to allow in some materials for rebuilding areas devastated by a three-week Israeli offensive that ended in mid-January.
Israel, which pulled settlers out of Gaza in 2005, has long restricted the entry of goods into the enclave and tightened its blockade when it was taken over by Hamas Islamists who defeated forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007. Continued...
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