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Israel, Palestinians resume high level talks on peace process
Israel and the Palestinians resumed high-level talks yesterday at a meeting with a top US envoy, with Israel's defence minister opting stay away amid mounting US criticism of settlement construction.
Ehud Barak's office said he was sending an aide to Friday's talks with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad and US Lieutenant General William Fraser.
The meeting, to discuss implementation of the stalled 2003 peace roadmap, is the first at senior level since Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas suspended talks on March 2 to protest an Israeli blitz on the Hamas- run Gaza Strip.
Fraser, who was appointed in January to oversee compliance with the internationally drafted roadmap, was likely to have some tough words for Israel.
"Israel is not living up to its commitments to do what it can to facilitate the lives of the Palestinians in the West Bank," a diplomat said, adding that "things haven't really been moving on the ground."
The liberal Haaretz newspaper quoted an unnamed Israeli official as saying "real tension has developed with the Americans, and if there are no steps on the ground we will find ourselves in big trouble. °
Israel has faced particularly harsh criticism over continued construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, contrary to
the roadmap agreements.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tkipi Livni, who was on a US visit, admitted settlement construction was unhelpful to the peace process. "Basically. I don't think that it helps," she said Thursday in a speech at I harvard University.
The Palestinians are also likely to face criticism after eight students were mowed down by a Palestinian gunman at a religious school in Jerusalem last week.
"There are also Palestinian obligations that are not being fulfilled. They are not doing enough on terrorism." a diplomat said.
Drafted by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, the roadmap calls for a halt to Jewish settlement activity in Palestinian territories and an end to Palestinian attacks against Israel.
The plan has made scant progress, but Israel and the Palestinians agreed in November to relaunch it during a conference in the United States that restarted the peace process after a seven-year hiatus.
Violence in and around the Gaza Strip, where Hamas seized power in June after routing forces loyal Abbas, has since cast a shadow over the revived peace process.
Since the November conference. at least 351 people, most of them Gaza militants, have been killed in violence between the two sides, according to an AFP count.