Representatives of Mr. Spitzer's office, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are investigating trading at Janus, declined to comment on Mr. Whiston's departure or the status of settlement talks with the company.
The researchers developed a sociodemographic questionnaire including gender (1 = female; 2 = male), age, marital status, educational status, monthly income, family type, employment status, type of settlement, and type and duration of diabetes.
The text did not address any of the key issues in this dispute: Jerusalem; the right of return of 1948 refugees; the status of Jewish settlements built on occupied Palestinian land; or the borders of the Palestinian entity.
The Geneva Accord, as the virtual peace agreement has been named, creates a Palestinian state and resolves the status of Israeli settlements, Palestinian refugees and the city of Jerusalem.
Analysts said they were encouraged by the goal of a "framework agreement," which could be a practical vehicle for both sides to resolve vexing "final status" issues: borders, security, the political status of Jerusalem, settlements and the rights of Palestinian refugees.
Israel says the status of the settlements must be decided in negotiations.
An agreement on borders will in and of itself resolve 70 to 80percentt of the final status of the settlements and define the parameters of the Palestinian state.
In addition, the informal nature of slums and, by implication, the uncertainty about the legal status of the settlements has for a long time made the improvement of public social services in these areas difficult.
That the circumstances of the creation of this settlement not only have the effect of turning all of Jerusalem into the status of a settlement, but of turning all of Israel into the status of Occupied Territory.
Few conclusions can therefore be derived about the status of the settlement during this period, although the midden deposits show no clear break since Roman times.
