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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listening to Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia in the West Bank city of Ramallah last month. (AP)
Last update - 12:41 12/03/2008
Qureia to Livni: PA 'shocked' at Israeli plan to expand settlements
By Haaretz Staff
Tags: settlements, Tzipi Livni 

In a letter to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday, Ahmed Qureia, who heads the Palestinian team in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, expressed "shock and dismay" at Israel's planned expansion of West Bank settlements.

Qureia wrote that the construction in the settlements is a violation of the road map and of international law, which is being carried out despite numerous meetings between the two sides aiming to reach a final status agreement by the end of 2008.

Qureia's letter to Livni comes after Israel announced that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had authorized construction of 750 housing units in a Givat Ze'ev neighborhood, beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem, as well as reports of plans to build more housing in East Jerusalem areas.
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Qureia expressed Palestinian frustration at the decision to build in Givat Ze'ev, but also said he supported the upcoming trilateral meeting with the Americans which will monitor the compliance of Israel and the PA with the first phase of the road map.

The former Palestinian prime minister wrote that "all such illegal activity continues to undermine our efforts to reach our common goal of a comprehensive peace treaty before the end of 2008."

He also described the decision as geared to "satisfy the right-wing elements at the expense of the peace process," and warned that this essentially surrendered the process to the opponents of a two-state solution.

"This situation cannot stand," Qureia wrote, calling on Israel to "immediately rescind the decisions" because it "is necessary to ensure that a two-state solution remains a viable option."

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      1.   Qureia sends letters and receives more settlements 02:03  |  Israeli Justice 12/03/08
      2.   For each rocket and for each bombing ... 02:20  |  Steven 12/03/08
      3.   The plan is... 03:09  |  Steve Beikirch 12/03/08
      4.   To #1 03:12  |  Motti 12/03/08
      5.   What lesson is Israel trying to teach the Palestinians this time. 03:32  |  Bruce 12/03/08
      6.   #1 04:04  |  ze`ev 12/03/08
      7.   Shocked at Building: Comforted by Destruction 04:10  |  Efox 12/03/08
      8.   US and EU Must Force Halt of Israeli Construction in Occupeid WB 04:14  |  Mourning Wood 12/03/08
      9.   #1 PA should curb violence FIRST,Israel STOPS settlements SECOND 04:21  |  Vittorio 12/03/08
      10.   I`m "shocked" at continuing Pal terror despite Road Map 04:21  |  Free Gilad Shalit 12/03/08
      11.   And what exactly have they (PA) done to incurage Israel to negoti 04:31  |  Franco 12/03/08
      12.   YEAH, RIGHT, "SHOCK AND SIMAY" HE WAS 06:52  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      13.   Dan to Qureia: Don`t be More terror will bring More Settlements 07:00  |  Dan 12/03/08
      14.   This leadership don`t seem to learn 07:02  |  pal 12/03/08
      15.   Get use to it.. 07:31  |  Daniel 12/03/08
      16.   TIME TO SUE 07:44  |  Mark of Lewiston 12/03/08
      17.   #3 Not according to the Road Map, Vittorio 07:47  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      18.   #4 So am I, FGS, so am I...... 07:52  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      19.   Get off our land! 08:02  |  Yose 12/03/08
      20.   Why don`t the Palaestinians buy these houses? 08:02  |  Paul the hip dude 12/03/08
      21.   The failure of the Oslo agreement. 08:33  |  Jean Van Daem 12/03/08
      22.   OUR LAND FOR EVER 08:40  |  mike 12/03/08
      23.   #10 Paul, no, arabs can`t buy them 08:47  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      24.   # 10, PAUL DE HIP DUDE 09:04  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      25.   I was also SHOCKED when I heard the "PA" 09:22  |  SLAVO 12/03/08
      26.   I am shocked too. And how! 09:42  |  S 12/03/08
      27.   reply to paul the hip dude 10:37  |  rebecca 12/03/08
      28.   the TRUTH is... 10:38  |  Omar 12/03/08
      29.   #26, S, all right, I`ll be shocked, too, 10:45  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 12/03/08
      30.   So Israel has aparthied laws? Why do they complain? 11:03  |  Paul the hip guy 12/03/08
      31.   Who`s kidding whom? 11:06  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      32.   Israels new "strategy": Keep the settlements and bye-bye Tel Aviv 11:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/08
      33.   # 8 The building is legal 11:08  |  Avi Yerushalmi 12/03/08
      34.   The Road Map 11:15  |  MaryRose 12/03/08
      35.   How to kosher this,,, 11:18  |  Esther 12/03/08
      36.   I don`t understand why... 11:25  |  Edith 12/03/08
      37.   I agree with Ester 11:29  |  Edith 12/03/08
      38.   PAUL THE HIP GUY 11:30  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      39.   Margie #31 (Who are you kidding?) 11:33  |  Guido 12/03/08
      40.   Cause and effect 11:33  |  Murray 12/03/08
      41.   Israel loosing credibility more and more 11:49  |  Mark B. 12/03/08
      42.   # 37, EDITH 11:49  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      43.   There was never `no resistance`: there`s always been Pal Violence 12:19  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      44.   #31 Well, you appear to be kidding, Margie..... 12:19  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      45.   I agree wholeheartedly Mark of Lewiston 12:23  |  kiwi girl 12/03/08
      46.   #33 Well, that will be news to anyone who studied the six-day war 12:28  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      47.   to Indrayaya 12:29  |  harry 12/03/08
      48.   Saudi Ambassador visits George 12:35  |  American Christian 12/03/08
      49.   Cipora #29 12:37  |  S 12/03/08
      50.   #45 Hate to disappoint you, kiwi girl... 12:51  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      51.   Settlement s 12:56  |  17 12/03/08
      52.   #29 Cipora blandly displays her arrogance 13:01  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      53.   Margie #43 13:11  |  Guido 12/03/08
      54.   #51 17 doesn`t seem to have read his/her history 13:11  |  Johnboy 12/03/08
      55.   "Shocked" Why? 13:13  |  spyguy 12/03/08
      56.   Qureia Should Be Truthful and Announce 13:30  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      57.   Time Not to Sue (Post no. 16) 13:47  |  Johnny Weintraub 12/03/08
      58.   # 54 Johnboy "Actually, any occupied territory, 17... 14:02  |  17 12/03/08
      59.   Johnboy 14:13  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      60.   Avi Yerushalmi Please Support 14:13  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      61.   Murray on the sense of the colonies 14:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      62.   Hey Johnboy...What I can`t get my head 14:27  |  kiwi girl 12/03/08
      63.   Yaakov # 60 14:37  |  Avi Yerushalmi 12/03/08
      64.   # 62 Kiwi Girl "Somethings seriously wrong here." 14:44  |  17 12/03/08
      65.   Avi Yerushalmi, this is incorrect 14:51  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      66.   17 - from Ralph Nader & UNRWA 15:02  |  Kiwi girl 12/03/08
      67.   Synonyms: Settlements, Cleansing, Colonization, Apartheid 15:13  |  Angel 12/03/08
      68.   #31 Margie kidding from beyond the river of DeNial 15:13  |  Tosefta 12/03/08
      69.   Kiwi girl - From Santa Klaus & ABVHJK 15:18  |  17 12/03/08
      70.   ISRAEL"shocked"at Pal.double dealing.Condemning student shooting 15:28  |  PETER SM 12/03/08
      71.   Margie, there has always been More Israeli voilence 15:31  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
      72.   Paul the unhip due 15:33  |  Purple Canary 12/03/08
      73.   Omar - the truth 15:37  |  Purple Canary 12/03/08
      74.   Yaakov #65 15:46  |  Avi yerushalmi 12/03/08
      75.   The weakness of a virtual partner 15:51  |  Tosefta 12/03/08
      76.   SETTLEMENTS DEFEAT JIHAD 15:52  |  B 12/03/08
      77.   ibrahim 15:54  |  Purple Canary 12/03/08
      78.   Yaakov is wrong and Avi is right 16:30  |  B 12/03/08
      79.   PURPLE CANARY - OPEN THE SETTLEMENTS!!! 16:45  |  Stephen Connor 12/03/08
      80.   sullivan #61...REALTIVE CALM!?!? Tell that to the yeshiva!! 16:52  |  SHIMON 12/03/08
      81.   quiera.... wake up 17:04  |  ravi 12/03/08
      82.   #66 kiwi girls real problem she believes what she wants to believ 17:09  |  v hardman 12/03/08
      83.   #79 steve still in the mists of self delusion 17:48  |  v hardman 12/03/08
      84.   Tosefta calling too quietly for the end to violence 17:55  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      85.   Stephen Connor 17:55  |  Purple Canary 12/03/08
      86.   Ibrahim 18:02  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      87.   Americans will be on the streets protesting... 18:58  |  Dutch 12/03/08
      88.   Margie get your head out of the toilet 19:07  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
      89.   I predict Americans will be buring the Israeli flag... 19:13  |  Dutch 12/03/08
      90.   Ibrahim - SETTLEMENTS ARE GOOD FOR PALESTINIANS 19:14  |  Stephen Connor 12/03/08
      91.   Possession = 9 points of the law 19:20  |  Jim 12/03/08
      92.   to Mark of Lewiston, very revealing 19:30  |  Scharker Yid 12/03/08
      93.   Logic in the Twilight Zone (Margie #84) 19:32  |  Tosefta 12/03/08
      94.   shocked 19:37  |  colin 12/03/08
      95.   Please Mr. Qureia, don`t be "shocked". You know and I know and so 19:38  |  Avihu 12/03/08
      96.   Ibrahim 19:41  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      97.   #4 Motti No pain for Israel 19:45  |  Jim 12/03/08
      98.   45 Kiwi Girl - No Interntional Court Needed 20:13  |  Mark of Lewiston 12/03/08
      99.   57 Jonny Weintraub 20:33  |  Mark of Lewiston 12/03/08
      100.   Marige, practise what you preach. 20:35  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
      101.   Mr Connor, I agree except for one problem... 20:38  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
      102.   Purple Canary on Jerusalem. 20:41  |  Ibrahim 12/03/08
      103.   #22 mike 20:41  |  Jim 12/03/08
      104.   #35 Esther 20:58  |  Jim 12/03/08
      105.   # 103 Jim "And BTW, where did the Assyrians come from? Why, Iraq, 21:06  |  17 12/03/08
      106.   Ibrahim 21:12  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/03/08
      107.   ISRAEL SHOCKED: Qureia doesn`t curb violnce! NO PEACE=NO LANDS 21:14  |  Vittorio 12/03/08
      108.   Dutch (#89 & #87): You should know Americans better. The majority 21:21  |  Vittorio 12/03/08
      109.   Queria and PA Lionize Yeshiva Murderer 21:34  |  Tod Zuckerman 12/03/08
      110.   Ibrahim - WHAT THEY SAY V. WHAT THEY DO 21:50  |  Stephen Connor 12/03/08
      111.   Ibrahim 21:50  |  Danite 12/03/08
      112.   Yaakov! #65, Why am I wrong? 22:18  |  Avi Yerushalmi 12/03/08
      113.   #49, S 22:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 12/03/08
      114.   # 30 Paul the Hip Dude.....I just wanted to add 22:25  |  Lynn 12/03/08
      115.   To Mr Qurei: A comprehensive peace treaty 22:46  |  Altalena 12/03/08
      116.   Qureia shocked?? 23:10  |  Steve 12/03/08
      117.   92 Sharker Yid - Israeli Law and Israeli Records 23:20  |  Mark of Lewiston 12/03/08
      118.   qureai is a cement merchant!can you believe him? 23:25  |  v hardman 12/03/08
      119.   West Bank desoccupied 00:32  |  jose marcio 13/03/08
      120.   QUREIA `SHOCKED` 00:33  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 13/03/08
      121.   #87 dutch and her protest 00:42  |  Adrian de Klerk 13/03/08
      122.   #58 No, 17, I mean "any occupied territory" 00:45  |  Johnboy 13/03/08
      123.   Margie, you are so terribly dishonest... 01:12  |  Ibrahim 13/03/08
      124.   Johnboy 46 the Australian Expert on the Six Day War 01:17  |  Steve 13/03/08
      125.   Tosefta - then he is a gonner 01:28  |  Mark Lincoln 13/03/08
      126.   #78 No, actually, B; Yaakov is right.... 01:47  |  Johnboy 13/03/08
      127.   Consequences of the Six Day War 01:52  |  Steve 13/03/08
      128.   #78 A Lovely attitude, B 01:56  |  Johnboy 13/03/08
      129.   Vittorio, I am far from being alone in my outrage 02:29  |  Dutch 13/03/08
      130.   No arab state, no peace talks 03:04  |  don rosenberg 13/03/08
      131.   OLMERT IS A DEFEATIST WHO WILL ALWAYS CAVE IN TO ARAB TERROR 03:28  |  ROB SCHWARTZ 13/03/08
      132.   Cut all aid to Israel 03:50  |  betz55 13/03/08
      133.   Howdy Danite... 03:50  |  Ibrahim 13/03/08
      134.   to ze`ev #6 04:29  |  zeev 13/03/08
      135.   127 steve and conquest 04:46  |  Truth 13/03/08
      136.   to Steve #127 04:51  |  zeev 13/03/08
      137.   to Truth #134 05:33  |  zeev 13/03/08
      138.   #8 Mourning Wood 06:35  |  Courcey 13/03/08
      139.   #124 Steve posts here, there, and everywhere 07:33  |  Johnboy 13/03/08
      140.   Cipora #113 08:45  |  S 13/03/08
      141.   Johnboy 13:27  |  Rab Burns 13/03/08
      142.   shocked 18:40  |  George Duraisingh 13/03/08
      143.   to CJ Kohn #113 - how people change! 20:43  |  zeev 13/03/08
      144.   #141 Rab Burns loves his pre-emptions 01:22  |  Johnboy 14/03/08
      145.   to Johnboy #144 04:26  |  zeev 14/03/08
      146.   #144 Johnboy 08:05  |  Rab Burns 14/03/08
      147.   Johnboy 08:14  |  Rab Burns 14/03/08
      148.   #144 Johnboy 08:56  |  Rab Burns 14/03/08
      149.   #144 zeev 09:44  |  Johnboy 14/03/08
      150.   to Johnboy #144 - sorry for the typo 10:22  |  zeev 14/03/08
      151.   to Johnboy #147 19:45  |  zeev 14/03/08
      152.   #151 You`ve made some more mistakes, zeev 02:06  |  Johnboy 15/03/08
      153.   to Johnboy #152 03:23  |  zeev 15/03/08
      154.   #153 to zeev 09:33  |  Johnboy 15/03/08
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