Sentence examples for construction of new settlements from inspiring English sources
The announcement of the construction of new settlements was immediately condemned by the senior Palestinian political figure Hanan Ashrawi.
It called for the Palestinian Authority to curtail terrorist groups and for Israel to dismantle West Bank settlement outposts and to freeze the construction of new settlements.
It urged the Israeli government to freeze construction of new settlements and stop shooting at unarmed demonstrators, and Palestinians to prevent terrorist attacks and punish the perpetrators.
After Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed in 1993 to mutual recognition and began negotiating the terms of a Palestinian state, Israel ended construction of new settlements.
The Pew Center's survey found that only thirty-eight per cent of American Jews believe that the Israeli government is sincerely pursuing peace; forty-four per cent believe that the construction of new settlements damages Israel's national security.
Instead, it has denied a large swath of Mexico City's population – some 3 million people in 900 settlements – crucial resources, and done little to stem the construction of new settlements along the way.
The immediate catalyst, they said, could be another mosque vandalized by Jewish settlers, like the one burned on Tuesday, or the construction of new settlement housing.
Netanyahu tried to frame construction of new settlement units as necessary.
This is not an official policy change, which could provoke intense political debate, but a quiet change in practice -- like a recent freeze in the authorization of new settlement construction and in the paving of "bypass roads" that connect settlements to Israel, circumventing Palestinian towns.
The meeting between the two leaders came soon after Israel released statistics showing a large increase in the pace of new settlement construction in the West Bank in 2013 over the year before.
I was both understanding of and puzzled by the Obama Administration's reaction to Israel's announcement of new settlement construction in occupied Palestinian lands.
