A senior Palestinian official said peace talks with Israel would not resume unless the Jewish state agrees to stop all settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Settlements are illegal and to say they will not build new ones but will extend existing ones is deception,” said Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s deputy.
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