This President Bush -- Dubya -- if he keeps going in the direction he's been going, will be remembered as the president who got so wrapped around the finger of Ariel Sharon that he indulged Israel into thinking it really could have it all -- settlements, prosperity, peace and democracy -- and in doing so helped contribute to the slow erosion of the Jewish state.
"This makes it all the more unlikely that the D.O.J. can find an acceptable settlement with AT&T".
Bank of America, which faces potentially tens of billions of dollars in investor claims, held an unusual conference call on Wednesday to reassure shareholders it could cope with all settlements, among other concerns.
They reject the idea, embraced by most Israelis, that almost all the West Bank will have to be given back.Nominally, Israel accepts that it must stop all settlement building on both sides of the barrier and in East Jerusalem.
It is the world's northern-most town, with all settlements further north being research or meteorological outposts.
It was the primary agricultural unit though it is disputed whether all settlement in Attica was "nucleated" (that is, whether all farms were clustered together around demes), as one view holds.
It urges Israel to "bid farewell to the territories," immediately withdrawing all forces and evacuating all settlements.
It also called upon Israel to end its "attacks on civilians" and its "confiscation and/or demolition of Palestinian homes and property" and for the Israeli government to freeze all settlements activity and dismantle settlements constructed since March 2001.
It should then end all settlement construction east of the security barrier and in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
Although the US administration last year demanded Israel halt all settlement building, it eventually welcomed the partial curbs imposed by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
But the Quartet plan faces a major obstacle from a Palestinian insistence that it require Israel to halt all settlement construction during talks.
