In April 1830, wary of the rapidly swelling deluge of immigrants from the United States, the Mexican government legislated against further settlement in Coahuila and Texas by Anglo-Americans and reimposed the suspended tariff.
It must freeze further settlement construction in the West Bank and dismantle roadblocks between Palestinian cities and towns not needed for security.
Andrea Whitmore Fairway, Kan., May 12 , 2009 To the Editor: It would be right for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze further settlement construction in the West Bank and to dismantle roadblocks between Palestinian cities and towns not needed for security, as you suggest.
In New York, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon "expressed concern at the resumption of settlement activity and recent announcements of further settlement construction in East Jerusalem," the UN press office said.
Besides the settlements in Ireland, England, and Normandy, further settlement took place in what became Russia and in Iceland.
If you look back to last summer, when the Obama administration initially came out with its stance against further Israeli settlements in the West Bank, you saw a lot of commentary that attempted to make the Americans look like the bad guys.
After that, we suggest that he start with freezing further settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank, as Israel has so often promised but failed to do.
Among the messages, she said, were that further settlement construction threatens peace in the region, and that halting construction has been misrepresented as an Israeli concession while in fact international law requires it.
We have made it very clear that we are prepared to engage in further settlement discussion to narrow our differences and to submit outstanding issues to binding arbitration.
