Sentence examples for to stop settlements from inspiring English sources

"We require the Israeli government to stop settlements to discuss our issues," he shot back.

Mr. Netanyahu on Wednesday repeated his refusal to stop settlements or negotiate from the 1967 borders, calling both unacceptable "preconditions" for talks.

There were other efforts to stop settlements.

This time there will be no real pressure to stop settlements and make peace.

Next, the eternal quandary of Israel and Palestine, with the new right-wing Israeli government refusing, in various forms of gobbledygook, to stop settlements by religious fundamentalists on the disputed West Bank and various Arab actors refusing to fully recognize Israel.

"This effort to stop settlements throughout East Jerusalem and throughout the rest of Palestine cannot be something that only the President carries on his shoulders," he said, referring to a 2009 temporary freeze on building in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that the Obama administration had sought to apply to East Jerusalem as well.

Writing in the New York Times, he said: "Trying to stop settlement expansion is futile..

His speech on Sunday continued his defiance of Obama's plan to stop settlement activity.

Israel has freed a number of Palestinian prisoners while the Palestinians have dropped their demand for Israel to stop settlement construction as a precondition to talks.

Writing in the New York Times, he said: "Trying to stop settlement expansion is futile... Western governments must reassess their approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Predicting the numbers in Jewish colonies in the West Bank would top 400,000 by 2014, he wrote: "Trying to stop settlement expansion is futile".