Tensions Rise As Israel's Settlement Deadline Looms -- Time Magazine
On Sunday, the diesel roar of bulldozers will announce the resumption of construction on Israeli settlements in the ancient terraced hills of the West Bank. In the metaphorical silence said to typically follow a traumatic event, it might just be possible to hear the chair of Mahmoud Abbas scraping the floor as he pushes away from the negotiating table. The president of the Palestinian Authority says he cannot possibly continue talking about a two-state solution with an Israeli government allows the building houses for its own people on the land that's supposed to make up the other state. If Abbas stands by his ultimatum, and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains true to the promises he made to his right-wing coalition, President Obama's quest for a "framework agreement" between Israelis and Palestinians to divide the land they both claim could end less than a month after it began.
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Abbas Says No Peace Without Moratorium on Settlement Construction -- Voice of America
Jewish Settlers Ready to Build as Israel Under Pressure to Extend Freeze -- Bloomberg
Israel: Settlers brace for end of building freeze -- AP
Clinton meets Abbas as Mideast peace deadline looms -- Yahoo News/Reuters
PM’s associates: He’ll never give up Western Wall -- Jerusalem Post
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