Sentence examples for moratorium on settlements from inspiring English sources

Netanyahu's office and the US state department would only say publicly that he had agreed to confidence-building measures, and made no reference to a moratorium on settlements.

The truth was that it was going nowhere since the end of the moratorium on settlements and Washington's acquiescence in that Israeli move.

On Tuesday, Mr. Mitchell repeated Mr. Obama's recent call for Israel to extend the moratorium on settlements in the West Bank, "especially given that the talks are moving in a constructive direction," he said.

Neither happened, and Mr. Obama, who is not as popular in Israel as he is elsewhere around the world, was forced last September to make do with Mr. Netanyahu's offer of a 10-month partial moratorium on settlements in the West Bank.

The Netanyahu government's ongoing refusal to declare a moratorium on settlements expansion has been met with Arab leaders' obdurate resistance to offer Israel concessions of their own, raising questions about Mitchell's strategy and the viability of the process.

Despite a host of special incentives offered Israel, it would not have been able to coax the Netanyahu government to accept just a sixty day moratorium on settlements -- a stellar display of weakness.

Mr. Netanyahu's moratorium on settlement construction expires on Sept. 26.

But on Sept. 26, Israel's 10-month moratorium on settlement construction will expire.

Finally, Mr. Netanyahu's moratorium on settlement construction expires on Sept. 26.

The Palestinians refused to continue negotiating after an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction expired.

At the end of September, Israel's 10-month moratorium on settlement construction will expire.