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Titolo: Netanyahu will concede even more

http://www.thejc.com/print/24577
Analysis: Netanyahu will concede even more
By Anshel Pfeffer
Created 3 Dec 2009 - 2:01pm
No Israeli prime minister has ever announced an entire freeze of house 
building in the West Bank. Binyamin Netanyahu did it last Wednesday and 
despite the right-wing makeup of the Knesset and his own cabinet, he 
seems to have managed to get away with it. For now.
Mr Netanyahu bought himself a short respite from American pressure but 
it will not last for long. The PA, as was to be expected, has criticised 
the move as insufficient: it does not include east Jerusalem, it allows 
building to go on where foundations have already been laid, and building 
of public structures and schools will continue too.
For now, President Mahmoud Abbas has no intention of renewing 
negotiations with Israel. His political position among the Palestinians 
is too precarious and any sign of capitulation towards Israel may be the 
final straw. The Americans are still determined to prop him up and 
renewed pressure on Mr Netanyahu for more concessions is simply a matter 
of time.
But can Mr Netanyahu afford to make any more concessions? So far, aside 
from a handful of Likud backbenchers and a couple of junior ministers, 
there has been little opposition to his settlement freeze within his own 
party. Certainly, nothing resembling the insurrection which he himself 
led against Ariel Sharon four years ago during the Gaza withdrawal.
The main right-wing party within his coalition, Yisrael Beiteinu, has 
also remained silent. Shas opposed the freeze but muted its criticism 
and the party’s two cabinet members simply did not show up for the vote.
The settlers of course attacked the announcement. Many local council 
heads in Judea and Samaria refused to accept the formal orders 
forbidding them to continue building. But they have little political 
leverage for now.
The challenge for Mr Netanyahu will now be to find further measures that 
will keep the Americans, if not the PA, happy while not jeopardising the 
harmony within Likud and the coalition. He will most likely have to give 
the Palestinian security forces more control over wider areas and 
release hundreds of Fatah prisoners as a gesture to President Abbas, who 
needs to show his constituency that Hamas is not the only one capable of 
bringing prisoners home.
This will cause some ire on Mr Netanyahu’s right flank but not anything 
he cannot deal with. Any suggestion, though, that he is prepared to 
extend the freeze order will force at least some of the ministers who 
supported him last week to switch sides and also cause extreme unrest 
amongst some coalition partners.
Mr Netanyahu’s goal over the next few months will be to tread a careful 
path between these two conflicting lobbies. If he succeeds, the next big 
challenge is 10 months down the road, when the freeze period will end. 
Some of Mr Netanyahu’s ministers said following last week’s vote that 
they were in favour only because the freeze was limited in time. They 
will almost certainly oppose an extension, as will much of the 
parliamentary party.
But a decision to resume building will put Mr Netanyahu on the biggest 
collision course with the Americans in what has already proved to be a 
tempestuous relationship.

 building in the West Bank.
freeze consistito nell'annuncio della costruzione di 30 edifici
pubblici a servizio dei coloni. ROTFL

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Lo dici come se stessi facendo una grande rivelazione. Leggi il resto 
dell'articolo, vedrai che ne parla.
"house" <> "edifici pubblici".