Abbas Says Talks Will Collapse If Israel Builds in West Bank
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said an Israeli refusal to extend a construction freeze in Jewish settlements in the West Bank would undermine direct peace talks that start this week in Washington.
“Israel will be responsible for the failure or collapse of the talks if it continues expanding settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967,” Abbas said in a speech broadcast late yesterday on state-run Palestine Satellite Television.