[Links nur für registrierte Nutzer]Hardline Israeli ministers oppose fresh moratorium
04.10.2010
Attempts by Washington to entice Israel into extending a settlement moratorium look set to meet fierce opposition from coalition hardliners, a newspaper poll of cabinet ministers showed on Monday.
Renewing the ban on building new settler homes in the occupied West Bank appears to be key to salvaging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, who say they will walk out if construction continues.
Findings from the poll published in the Yediot Aharonot daily indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will struggle to convince his coalition to back a reported US deal offering security and other guarantees in exchange for a further 60 days of settlement curbs.
Peace talks with the Palestinians, which began just a month ago, face imminent collapse over Israel's refusal to renew a freeze which expired on September 26.
A poll by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, also published on Monday, found that 66 percent of Palestinians want Abbas to pull out of the talks and that just 33 percent support his continuing them.
Washington has been working around the clock to lure Israel into renewing the freeze and convince the Palestinians to stick with the fledgling negotiations. [...]
Es sieht aus würde der Haussegen zwischen den Zionisten und den USA dramatisch schief hängen, und wenn man den üblichen Wadenbeißern des Forums glauben will, dann ist nur "der Neger im Weißen Haus" daran schuld.