Hopes for peace deal fade as US abandons settlement freeze talks

The Obama administration’s efforts to achieve a a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians suffered a serious blow last night with an admission by Washington that it had abandoned efforts to agree a new moratorium on the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The move confirmed last night by a US diplomat in Jerusalem effectively means that Washington has abandoned its almost two-year-old tactic of trying to freeze settlement building as a means of bringing the two sides together in direct…

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Hopes for peace deal fade as US abandons settlement freeze talks

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