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ME peace now depends on Palestinians: Israel

AP, Jerusalem
Israel's foreign, minister said yesterday it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether to resume Middle East peace talks now that Israel has announced a settlement freeze.
Avigdor Lieberman told Israel's Army Radio that the "ball is in the Palestinian court."
His comments came a day after Israel proposed a 10-month halt in West Bank settlement construction, which the Palestinians swiftly rejected because it did not include east Jerusalem.
The Obama administration has been urging the sides to resume peace talks and said die Israeli move could help them do so. The Palestinians have refused to talk until all setde-ment construction ceases.
Lieberman, a settier himself, said Israel has gone as far as it
could in its gestures toward Palestinian President MahmoudAbbas.
"What we could have con-, tributed, we did," Lieberman said. "The Palestinians will make their considerations based on internal considerations that don't need to concern us."
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel's move was insignificant because current West Bank construction is not being stopped. He said Wednesday's announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was aimed more toward appeasing American pressure dian truly trying to reconcile with Palestinians.
"At the end of the day Netanyahu needs to make peace with us, the Palestinians, he doesn't need to make peace with Americans," Erekat told
Army Radio. "If that is what he wants, that is his business. The last I know, Washington is 6,000 miles from Jerusalem, while Jericho is 67."
Netanyahu also faces fierce opposition at home from pro-settler groups and even within his own right-wingcoalition.
Dani Dayan, leader of the West Bank settlers' council, accused Netanyahu of capitulating to American demands and getting notiling in return for his concessions.
He pledged to continue building as much as possible.
"We feel that he is going in a very slippery slope in which he is betraying his own beliefs," he told The Associated Press. "We will do everything in our capacity to keep building, to keep developing our communities, and I am optimistic that we will prevail."