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Titolo: Premier: Israel to keep parts of West Bank forever

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Premier: Israel to keep parts of West Bank forever
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Mark Lavie, Associated Press 
Writer – 14 mins ago
JERUSALEM – Israel's leader declared his country's permanent claim to 
parts of the West Bank on Sunday, angering Palestinians again and 
complicating efforts by President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy — though 
the same claim was also made by previous, more moderate premiers.
Timing and context lent weight to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 
visit to two Jewish settlements and his declaration that they would 
remain in Israel forever. He planted a tree at one of them — Maaleh 
Adumim, home to about 30,000 Israelis about two miles (three kilometers) 
from Jerusalem — a symbolic act of ownership.
"Our message is clear: We are planting here, we will stay here, we will 
build here. This place will be an inseparable part of the state of 
Israel for eternity," Netanyahu proclaimed, just as envoy George 
Mitchell was trying to restart peace talks after a yearlong stalemate.
In his claim, Netanyahu was referring to what Israel calls its "main 
settlement blocs," most of them close to Israeli population centers. 
Israel has long said it would keep the blocs, where about 80 percent of 
its 300,000 settlers live, and trade Israeli land to the Palestinians in 
exchange for the blocs.
In failed negotiations with former, relatively moderate Israeli premiers 
like Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, Palestinians have indicated they might 
accept such a trade.
But Netanyahu is suspect in Palestinian eyes, since he has traditionally 
opposed ceding control of any of the West Bank and has backed settlement 
expansion. Only under heavy U.S. pressure did he express grudging 
acceptance of the idea of a Palestinian state in a speech last June.
Netanyahu responded to Palestinian demands for a total construction 
freeze in the settlements by limiting new building in the West Bank but 
not in east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as their capital.
Palestinians rejected the partial freeze as insufficient to get them 
back to the negotiating table.
Israel countered that by demanding a total freeze in construction in the 
settlements and east Jerusalem's large Jewish neighborhoods — also 
considered settlements by the Palestinians — they have climbed out on a 
limb and are trapped by their own conditions.
On Sunday, claiming Maaleh Adumim and the Gush Etzion bloc south of 
Jerusalem, Netanyahu once again provided fuel for Palestinian outrage.
"This is an unacceptable act that destroys all the efforts being exerted 
by Senator Mitchell in order to bring the parties back to the 
negotiating table," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an aide to Palestinian 
President Mahmoud Abbas.
This came as Mitchell was conducting his latest round of talks in the 
region to try to get peace talks back on track.
In Amman, Jordan, Mitchell appeared unmoved by Netanyahu's declaration 
on Maaleh Adumim, restating the U.S. goal of a Palestinian state living 
next to Israel in peace. "We intend to continue to pursue our efforts 
until that objective is achieved," he said after meeting Abbas and 
Jordanian King Abdullah II.
On the eve of Mitchell's arrival last week, Netanyahu said Israel would 
demand a presence on the Jordanian border of the West Bank to stop 
weapons and rocket smuggling even if a peace deal is reached, in order 
to protect Israel's heartland from militant attacks like those from Gaza.
Palestinians rejected that as well. They want a state in the West Bank, 
Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem and say they will not accept any Israeli 
presence there — soldiers or settlers.
After his meeting with Mitchell, Netanyahu told his Cabinet he had heard 
"a few interesting ideas" on renewing peace talks. No details were 
forthcoming.
Even Mitchell's boss, Obama, has been sounding pessimistic about the 
prospects.
Last year, Obama took office with the ambitious aim of putting Mideast 
peacemaking on a fast track. Instead, the peace mission has stalled over 
Israel's settlements on occupied lands and the refusal by the 
Palestinians to return to peace talks.
Obama acknowledged in an interview published last week that he 
underestimated the domestic political forces at play in the region and 
overreached in expecting a quick breakthrough.
Associated Press Writer Jamal Halaby contributed to this report from 
Amman, Jordan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
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The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters 
of Israel everywhere to
become cyberspace soldiers "in the new battleground for Israel's image."
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 Premier: Israel to keep parts of West Bank forever
sono i palestinesi brutti, sporchi e cattivi che non vogliono la pace,
noi povere vittime universali e quindi incapaci di fare del male a una
mosca firmeremmo la pace domani stesso...

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