http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=239645
Netanyahu tells 'Post' new moratorium won't be declared to get Palestinians to agree to Quartet's formula for talks, dismisses criticism his UN speech gave no hope, saying hope can't be built on lies.
(What Bibi is really saying : "We will continue breaking international law, by building illegal settlements)
Israel will not declare a new settlement freeze to get the Palestinians to agree to the Quartet's formula for a renewal of talks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
Netanyahu was referring to the 10-month settlement freeze he initiated in November 2008 that did not succeed in inciting the Palestinians back to talks.
(The so called settlement freeze, building and planing went on anyway)
Netanyahu, in a Rosh Hashana interview with the Post just hours after returning from his five-day trip to the US where he
(Battle???He gave a pathetic speech, in his usual whining tone, that was lukewarmly received)
"It is a pretext they use again and again, but I think a lot of people see it as a ruse to avoid direct negotiations," he said.
Netanyahu said he had no intention of intervening with Interior Ministry's District Planning Committee that is scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the construction of project of more than 700 housing units in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, located over the Green Line, even though the Quartet – in its statement Friday – called on "the parties to refrain from provocative actions if negotiations are to be effective," a veiled reference to construction beyond the 1967 lines.
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