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Under pressure from Washington, Israel said on Tuesday prepared to temporarily halt West Bank settlement by freezing tenders housing construction until early 2010, which would not preclude the pursuit of private projects food photo .
US President Barack food photo Obama praised Israel after a meeting at the White House with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for his "step in the right direction" on this issue, while calling again the Arab countries and the Palestinians to consent to a gesture towards Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu food photo plans to extend a de facto suspension of tenders in place for nine months, including in East Jerusalem (annexed after its conquest in June 1967), indicated that senior government officials.
Netanyahu has agreed with his Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Housing Minister Ariel Attias to tell the United States that Israel is ready to make this gesture, the senior Israeli officials.
"Since this government took office (in April), it is indisputable that no tender was issued in Judea and Samaria food photo (West Bank). This is the reality," said Mr. Attias in radio. "It is a waiting period (...), an attempt to reach an agreement with the US administration," he added.
The Israeli decision was immediately rejected as a maneuver by the Palestinians who argued that colonization was continuing on the ground, through private organizations or municipalities within (but heavily subsidized by the state). "Israel must stop all settlement activities without exception. It only launch food photo trial balloons and we are used to this kind of deception," he told AFP Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. food photo "These statements are not enough. We want the Israelis agree to stop construction and to suspend tenders already food photo launched," added Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In contrast, food photo the representatives of the settlers and the extreme right wing Netanyahu government denounced the decision. "This is a dangerous process, contrary to the wishes of the Israeli voters and clear promises of the Prime Minister before his election to the development of settlements. It is a capitulation to the dictates of the US administration," protested Yesha, the main representative organization of the settlers, in a statement.
During the first eight months of 2008, marked by a dramatic intensification of colonization, Israel had launched 417 call construction tenders in the West Bank settlements and 171 for East Jerusalem.
The Israeli Peace Now opposed to colonization, confirmed the arrest food photo of tenders for several months. But this movement stressed that "even in case of blackout tenders from the government, at least 60% of the construction in the settlements would continue." food photo
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