Sentence examples for issue of settlements from inspiring English sources

Basically, he replaced the contentious issue of settlements with an even more contentious matter: boundaries.

But the top Israeli official said that the issue of settlements was still a major concern.

"The issue of settlements is clear: we never gave up our vision, whether now or previously".

The Oslo agreement of 1993 did not touch the issue of settlements.

And the Palestinians believe that Israel must be pressed firmly on the issue of settlements.

"We should not isolate this issue of settlements and make it the most important one.

"If they destroy the peace talks over this minor issue of settlement building, the Labor Party will leave the government," Minorities Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman of Labor said in a telephone interview.

Yet in meeting with his Cabinet today, Mr. Sharon told his ministers, most of whom are from parties identified with the settlement movement, that the issue of settlement outposts "might be addressed in the statement," a senior Israeli official said.

Both the international and the Israeli media – and, presumably, their audiences – couldn't get enough of debating the odds of a major clash between Washington and Jerusalem on the issue of settlement construction.

The issue of settlement building has plagued regional peace efforts and Israeli-American relations for decades, ever since the 1967 Middle East war ended with Israel holding vast swaths of land that had been won from its neighbors.

These trends indicate that Barack Obama took a smaller political risk than his predecessors would have when he (temporarily, alas) stood up to Mr. Netanyahu on the issue of settlement expansion.