Senior US official: no refugees to Israel, settlement blocs remain
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 31 August 2008

Yediot Ahronot correspondent Nahum Barnea reports in today's edition a
conversation in Washington with a "senior [US] Government official including
the following remarks:

"The position of Bush Administration is committed to the president's 14
April 2004 letter: the solution is a Palestinian state and not the return of
refugees to Israel.In her last visit ten days ago Secretary of State Rice
heard opposition to the Israeli settlement blocs remaining in the area of
the [West] Bank from the Palestinians. They said that this impairs
Palestinian movement. We told them that this is a problem that has to be
dealt with, but the settlement blocs would remain. We made it clear to them
that they must understand the reality: no Israeli prime minister can
abandon communities where tens of thousands of Israelis live."

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