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Title: | Could not trust them then--cannot trust them now. | |||
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| Name: | Labhras | | |||
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| City: | State: | Ireland. | | ||
| Full freeze. No conditions. No if,s and,s or buttheads. Here is a clip from the past. "The building now going on is intended to more than dou- ble the present population of some 100,000 Jews on the West Bank within a year. Additional housing for at least 15,000 more families is planned.(7) It has been no small source of irritation to the Bush administration that virtually every time Secretary Baker visits the Middle East, a new settlement goes up. The influx of Jews into the territories undermines Israel`s claim that it is willing to negotiate some form of autonomy with the Palestinians. Current plans include strings of settlements that would divide the West Bank, as well as sever Jerusalem from that territory. Moreover, under the "star plan," 12 new towns to be built on Israel`s pre-1967 eastern border would be linked with Jewish settlements on the West Bank, effectively relocating the border further east in occupied land.(8) Israel already controls most of the scarce water on the West Bank. |
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