Omaha World-Herald · Omaha, NE · 3 October 2010

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Palestinian leaders back Abbas as new construction stalls talks

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Dozens of senior Palestinians on Saturday backed President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to negotiate with Israel as long as it builds in West Bank settlements, dealing a new setback to U.S. efforts to salvage peace talks.

Israel refuses to extend a 10-month-old curb on settlement construction, while Abbas says there is no point in negotiating as long as settlements eat up more of the land the Palestinians want for a future state. The Palestinians’ final decision on whether to quit the talks is expected at an Arab League summit next weekend.

However, Saturday’s unanimous decision by dozens of senior members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Abbas’ Fatah movement makes compromise increasingly unlikely. “There will be no negotiations as long as settlement building continues,” senior Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh said after a three-hour meeting.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is equally adamant about not extending the curb on settlement construction. Israeli building crews began work last week at settlements including Ariel, Oranit, Tekoa and Adam, said Naftali Bennett, director-general of the Yesha Council, which represents more than 300,000 settlers in the West Bank.

This report includes material from Bloomberg News.

How this transcription was made

Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping, and nothing on it contradicts the label. Adjudicated against the printed page: Nothing on this page identifies the newspaper. No masthead, folio, running head, page number or section rail; the top strip above the headline and the bottom strip below the last line are both blank. The only credits printed are "RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)" insi Companion to s024_1 — same refusal, same remedy. The date as staged is well supported: the story is datelined off a Saturday meeting (2 October 2010) and puts the Arab League decision "next weekend", which is the 8 October Sirte meeting, giving a Sunday 3 October paper. But which of slide 24's two papers printed it is

Context added by this archive

AP wire copy. Nouns: 'West Bank settlements', 'settlement construction', 'settlers', 'curb on settlement construction' (the paper's softened word for the moratorium). 'Occupied' does not appear.

Bennett appears purely as a factual source on where crews are digging - the paper hands him the task of confirming the construction, and attaches the 300,000-settler figure to his organisation rather than to any independent count.

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