US halts deal with Israel on settlements: paper

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/March/middleeast_March419.xml§ion=middleeast

JERUSALEM - The United States has halted work with Israel on mapping Jewish settlements in the West Bank as part of peace efforts after Israel failed to provide information on them, an Israeli newspaper said on Tuesday.

Haaretz said an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had promised US President George W. Bush’s administration Israel would demarcate the settlements in line with a US-backed Middle East peace plan requiring a settlement expansion freeze.

But Israel had since supplied no up-to-date aerial photographs of the West Bank to help a joint Israeli-US task force check the settlements’ status, prompting Washington to call off the project, said the daily newspaper.

Israeli and US officials were not immediately available for comment on the report, which came a week after an internal probe accused the Sharon government of failing to stop -- and at times abetting -- the spread of West Bank settler outposts.

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[itzamirakul]

1. Lebanon is a waterfront country, isn't it?

So everything may be coming to a halt until Syria is forced out of Lebanon and then Israel can find reason to extend settlements onto the waterfront regions of that country.

[ClintonTyree]

2. The White House charging that another country is not....................

forthcoming with information is ludicrous. This White House stalls, and completely ignores anyone's request for information from THEM, but they'll insist everyone else play by the rules and fully disclose their intentions. :eyes:
We live in completely backasswards times, folks. If there was ever a time for hallucinogenic drugs, this is it. :crazy:

[Moderator]

3. locking

discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x88251