Sentence examples for to continue settlements from inspiring English sources

Unlike Abdel-Shafi, and probably out of personal loyalty to Arafat, he neverthless accepted the Oslo accords – in his view now a tragic error – even though they allowed Israel to continue settlements.

He has pledged to continue settlement expansion, opposes giving up the Golan Heights to Syria, and argues for the toppling of Hamas in Gaza.

It would make it more difficult for Netanyahu to continue settlement building — and spur an Israeli public that is also still wary to urge Netanyahu to take risks for peace and support him for doing so.

During the election campaign, Netanyahu vowed to continue settlement-building in occupied East Jerusalem in defiance of the international community, including the EU and Washington, which strongly oppose Jewish settlement construction in Jerusalem.

BP and the steering committee of plaintiffs' lawyers issued a joint statement saying that they had been given "more time to continue settlement discussions and attempt to reach an agreement" but that "there can be no assurance that these discussions will lead to a settlement agreement".

Ahead of Tuesday's election, some Palestinian officials close to Abbas had intimated that a Netanyahu victory – not least in terms of his outright rejection of a two-state solution and his vow to continue settlement construction – would mark a clear break in a US-led peace process that has been on ice since it collapsed almost a year ago.

The Israelis want US permission to continue settlement growth even beyond what they term "settlement blocs" that house the majority of settlers in the West Bank.

"We have long made clear our opposition to continued settlement activity," the US official told Reuters on Sunday night.

In a document, published by the French Foreign Ministry ahead of this one-more International Peace Conference on the Middle East, France makes it abundantly clear that "the two state solution is under increased threat particularly with regard to continued settlement activities".

"Talk of establishing the state by 2008 will allow Israel to continue building settlements and swallowing more Palestinian land, which will damage the peace process".

Two opinion polls suggest many Israelis want their government to continue building settlements in East Jerusalem, even if it brings a rift with the Americans.