\r\n\tFormer Zionist regime’s President Shimon Peres said the regime’s appropriation of West Bank land for settlement is damaging talks for a lasting diplomatic accord with the Palestinians.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\t“We have to agree not to continue the building of new settlements while we are negotiating,” Peres said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Cernobbio, Italy.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\t“You cannot quarrel and negotiate at the same time. So we have to agree on a quid-pro-quo situation.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tZionist regime last week announced it was declaring about 1,000 acres of territory south of Beit-ul-lahm as state property, clearing the way for eventual construction of new settlements there.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\tThe seizure was condemned by the Palestinians, the U.S. and the United Nations as detrimental to the peace process.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tPeres’s comments reflect the division in Israel over new settlements and peace talks with the Palestinians.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\tZionist Regime’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett last week defended the moves, adding that a Palestinian state was “not working.”
\r\n\tFinance Minister Yair Lapid said the appropriation in the Gush Etzion region was taken without cabinet approval and “causes damage” to Israel.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\tThe U.S. called on Zionist Regime to reverse the land seizures, and expressed concern about reports of settlement plans in east al-Quds.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\tSuch measures are “contrary to Israel’s stated goal of negotiating a permanent status agreement with the Palestinians,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mailed statement.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tPalestinians say Israeli construction in the West Bank and east al-Quds is a war crime that violates the Fourth Geneva Convention.<\/p>\r\n
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