Today, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) General Secretary made a public complaint from Ramallah that was also sent directly to Washington about what he called the “first violation … of the terms to start indirect negotiations”.
Haaretz reported that “Yasser Abed Rabbo said the construction of 14 housing units for Jewish settlers in an East Jerusalem neighbourhood, as reported by the Israeli Peace Now pressure group, violated the terms of new talks. ‘This is the first violation and first breach of the terms to start the indirect negotiations’, said Abed Rabbo, the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, which on Saturday voted in favor of indirect negotiations under U.S. mediation. ‘We will act immediately to stop this, because we will not agree that negotiations will be used as a cover for settlement activities’, he said. He added: ‘The PA is following this situation on the ground with the U.S.A’.”
But, what State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement on Sunday is that “Israel had pledged not to build in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of East Jerusalem for two years…”
Ramat Shlomo, only.
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