Israeli settlement expansion announced plans to build 1,400 new housing units planned

 16 Israel Army Radio said in a report to plan in East Jerusalem Jewish settlements built 1400 housing units.

It is reported that new settlements in the Bethlehem project will be built near the city of Gilo community, the project plan has been submitted to the local municipal council and is expected to be approved by the next few days.

According to information released by the U.S. State Department earlier, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators at the recent indirect talks in Washington, the two sides through the U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell to discuss core issues.

Nile News Channel 16 at noon news commentary that, in view of the Palestinians and Israelis in the past over four months of stalemate on the issue of settlements, This time to uncertainty, and Israel in the negotiations on the eve of a sudden release of the new Jewish settlement expansion plan, was once again negotiating a layer of thick haze enveloped.

Last year early in September, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington to restart direct talks between Israel and Palestine, but soon because of Jewish settlements in Israel's refusal to extend the construction time limit orders to a halt. In Israel, no significant effect of repeated pressure, the United States announced in December last year to push Israel to give up that extend the built limits of settlements, which further increases the difficulty of direct negotiations between Palestine and Israel.

Israel announced the new residential project near Jewish settlements in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, and therefore, each side in this region Voice of Palestine radio station 16 Commenting on the project believe that Israel repeatedly forced settlement in the region to promote expansion project, which aims to create a de facto siege of Bethlehem and isolation, to the detriment of interests of the Palestinians as a precondition, thus achieving Israel to maximize their own interests.

For the expansion of Jewish settlements, Israel has always been the local government adopted a more supportive attitude, coupled with the powerful right-wing cabinet to be supported, so whether Netanyahu the real bottom line on settlements How, from a practical perspective, it is difficult to suppress the long-term expansion of the domestic action on settlements. In the Palestinian view, one can not stop building settlements on the full commitment of the negotiating partner, is simply disingenuous to speak of.

After the New Year, the United States proceed with arrangements to return to Palestine and Israel indirect talks in Washington in order to maintain contact with both differences do not, through settlements cut off completely. However, the Egyptian,