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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listening to Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia in the West Bank city of Ramallah last month. (AP)
Last update - 12:41 12/03/2008
Qureia to Livni: PA 'shocked' at Israeli plan to expand settlements
By Haaretz Staff
Tags: settlements, Tzipi Livni 

In a letter to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday, Ahmed Qureia, who heads the Palestinian team in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, expressed "shock and dismay" at Israel's planned expansion of West Bank settlements.

Qureia wrote that the construction in the settlements is a violation of the road map and of international law, which is being carried out despite numerous meetings between the two sides aiming to reach a final status agreement by the end of 2008.

Qureia's letter to Livni comes after Israel announced that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had authorized construction of 750 housing units in a Givat Ze'ev neighborhood, beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem, as well as reports of plans to build more housing in East Jerusalem areas.
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Qureia expressed Palestinian frustration at the decision to build in Givat Ze'ev, but also said he supported the upcoming trilateral meeting with the Americans which will monitor the compliance of Israel and the PA with the first phase of the road map.

The former Palestinian prime minister wrote that "all such illegal activity continues to undermine our efforts to reach our common goal of a comprehensive peace treaty before the end of 2008."

He also described the decision as geared to "satisfy the right-wing elements at the expense of the peace process," and warned that this essentially surrendered the process to the opponents of a two-state solution.

"This situation cannot stand," Qureia wrote, calling on Israel to "immediately rescind the decisions" because it "is necessary to ensure that a two-state solution remains a viable option."

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      1.   Qureia sends letters and receives more settlements 02:03  |  Israeli Justice 12/03/08
      2.   For each rocket and for each bombing ... 02:20  |  Steven 12/03/08
      3.   The plan is... 03:09  |  Steve Beikirch 12/03/08
      4.   To #1 03:12  |  Motti 12/03/08
      5.   What lesson is Israel trying to teach the Palestinians this time. 03:32  |  Bruce 12/03/08
      6.   #1 04:04  |  ze`ev 12/03/08
      7.   Shocked at Building: Comforted by Destruction 04:10  |  Efox 12/03/08
      8.   US and EU Must Force Halt of Israeli Construction in Occupeid WB 04:14  |  Mourning Wood 12/03/08
      9.   #1 PA should curb violence FIRST,Israel STOPS settlements SECOND 04:21  |  Vittorio 12/03/08
      10.   I`m "shocked" at continuing Pal terror despite Road Map 04:21  |  Free Gilad Shalit 12/03/08
      11.   And what exactly have they (PA) done to incurage Israel to negoti 04:31  |  Franco 12/03/08
      12.   YEAH, RIGHT, "SHOCK AND SIMAY" HE WAS 06:52  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      13.   Dan to Qureia: Don`t be More terror will bring More Settlements 07:00  |  Dan 12/03/08
      14.   This leadership don`t seem to learn 07:02  |  pal 12/03/08
      15.   Get use to it.. 07:31  |  Daniel 12/03/08
      16.   TIME TO SUE 07:44  |  Mark of Lewiston 12/03/08
      17.   #3 Not according to the Road Map, Vittorio 07:47  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      18.   #4 So am I, FGS, so am I...... 07:52  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      19.   Get off our land! 08:02  |  Yose 12/03/08
      20.   Why don`t the Palaestinians buy these houses? 08:02  |  Paul the hip dude 12/03/08
      21.   The failure of the Oslo agreement. 08:33  |  Jean Van Daem 12/03/08
      22.   OUR LAND FOR EVER 08:40  |  mike 12/03/08
      23.   #10 Paul, no, arabs can`t buy them 08:47  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      24.   # 10, PAUL DE HIP DUDE 09:04  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      25.   I was also SHOCKED when I heard the "PA" 09:22  |  SLAVO 12/03/08
      26.   I am shocked too. And how! 09:42  |  S 12/03/08
      27.   reply to paul the hip dude 10:37  |  rebecca 12/03/08
      28.   the TRUTH is... 10:38  |  Omar 12/03/08
      29.   #26, S, all right, I`ll be shocked, too, 10:45  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 12/03/08
      30.   So Israel has aparthied laws? Why do they complain? 11:03  |  Paul the hip guy 12/03/08
      31.   Who`s kidding whom? 11:06  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      32.   Israels new "strategy": Keep the settlements and bye-bye Tel Aviv 11:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/08
      33.   # 8 The building is legal 11:08  |  Avi Yerushalmi 12/03/08
      34.   The Road Map 11:15  |  MaryRose 12/03/08
      35.   How to kosher this,,, 11:18  |  Esther 12/03/08
      36.   I don`t understand why... 11:25  |  Edith 12/03/08
      37.   I agree with Ester 11:29  |  Edith 12/03/08
      38.   PAUL THE HIP GUY 11:30  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      39.   Margie #31 (Who are you kidding?) 11:33  |  Guido 12/03/08
      40.   Cause and effect 11:33  |  Murray 12/03/08
      41.   Israel loosing credibility more and more 11:49  |  Mark B. 12/03/08
      42.   # 37, EDITH 11:49  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      43.   There was never `no resistance`: there`s always been Pal Violence 12:19  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      44.   #31 Well, you appear to be kidding, Margie..... 12:19  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      45.   I agree wholeheartedly Mark of Lewiston 12:23  |  kiwi girl 12/03/08
      46.   #33 Well, that will be news to anyone who studied the six-day war 12:28  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      47.   to Indrayaya 12:29  |  harry 12/03/08
      48.   Saudi Ambassador visits George 12:35  |  American Christian 12/03/08
      49.   Cipora #29 12:37  |  S 12/03/08
      50.   #45 Hate to disappoint you, kiwi girl... 12:51  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      51.   Settlement s 12:56  |  17 12/03/08
      52.   #29 Cipora blandly displays her arrogance 13:01  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      53.   Margie #43 13:11  |  Guido 12/03/08
      54.   #51 17 doesn`t seem to have read his/her history 13:11  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      55.   "Shocked" Why? 13:13  |  spyguy 12/03/08
      56.   Qureia Should Be Truthful and Announce 13:30  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      57.   Time Not to Sue (Post no. 16) 13:47  |  Johnny Weintraub 12/03/08
      58.   # 54 Johnboy "Actually, any occupied territory, 17... 14:02  |  17 12/03/08
      59.   Johnboy 14:13  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      60.   Avi Yerushalmi Please Support 14:13  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      61.   Murray on the sense of the colonies 14:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      62.   Hey Johnboy...What I can`t get my head 14:27  |  kiwi girl 12/03/08
      63.   Yaakov # 60 14:37  |  Avi Yerushalmi 12/03/08
      64.   # 62 Kiwi Girl "Somethings seriously wrong here." 14:44  |  17 12/03/08
      65.   Avi Yerushalmi, this is incorrect 14:51  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      66.   17 - from Ralph Nader & UNRWA 15:02  |  Kiwi girl 12/03/08
      67.   Synonyms: Settlements, Cleansing, Colonization, Apartheid 15:13  |  Angel 12/03/08
      68.   #31 Margie kidding from beyond the river of DeNial 15:13  |  Tosefta 12/03/08
      69.   Kiwi girl - From Santa Klaus & ABVHJK 15:18  |  17 12/03/08
      70.   ISRAEL"shocked"at Pal.double dealing.Condemning student shooting 15:28  |  PETER SM 12/03/08
      71.   Margie, there has always been More Israeli voilence 15:31  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
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