Settlement Threatens to End Moratorium Middle East Peace

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Freezing 10 months of construction of new Jewish settlements on land Palestinians in the occupied West Bank ended at midnight Sunday.
Conditions that endanger the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks less than a month after the President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama is facilitating the talks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly said that he would leave the negotiating table for peace directly with Israel that if the freezing of development was not continued.
President Obama has asked Tel Aviv to continue the freeze it but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to continue the moratorium on the construction of settlements.
In contrast, Netanyahu - whose government supported the pro-parties settlement construction - just offer a new building restrictions than the command extension moratorium.
Israeli and Palestinian officials met U.S. diplomats in New York on the weekend. Third party seeks to find solutions and avoid the failure of the negotiation process that has been running.
"We do everything we can to keep all parties involved in these direct negotiations," said Foreign Ministry spokesman PJ U.S. Crowley.
In connection with efforts to maintain the momentum of the peace talks directly to the Palestinian-Israeli U.S. bridged it, Crowley said, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, met with President Abbas about a half hour on Saturday.
Some allies of Prime Minister Netanyahu, including members of his political machine in the Likud Party, plans to lay the first stone for the construction of new homes in the area of remote settlements in the West Bank Revava north as a sign of the end of freezing on Sunday midnight.
At least 430 thousand Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Under international law, hundreds of settlements built on Palestinian Arab land Israel seized in 1967 war was illegal.
But Israel was violating international law. Palestinian Parties affirm Jewish settlements difficult for them to realize the country has a future.
The issue of settlements is considered the Palestinians as one of the main obstacles to the process of achieving any peace with Israel.
When responding to the problem, President Mahmoud Abbas had been asking the Israeli ultimatum Tel Aviv to choose between "peace and development of new settlements."
Assertion Palestinian Abbas in a speech delivered before the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Palestinian leaders said the choice should be taken if Tel Aviv wants a successful international negotiations.
Abbas also condemned what he called "the mentality of expansion and domination" that controls Israeli policy.
The Israeli government has so far continued to support new residential development project for Jews in the land of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem.
But Abbas also confirmed its readiness to work with the United States (USA) that seeks to help the success of the political process to achieve comprehensive peace in the Middle East dil funds.