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Mon 07 Jul 2009Palestinians rule out any further West Bank settlements
THE PALESTINIAN Authority rejects any compromise between the US and Israel which would permit any Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, senior negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday.
“There are no middle-ground solutions for the settlement issue: either settlement activity stops or itdoesn’t stop,” Mr Erekat asserted, adding that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had sent a letter putting forward that position to US president Barack Obama.
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