Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, concedes that Israel hasn't exactly been playing the settlement game quite by the rules. In an interview in the Jerusalem Post he is quoted as saying, "Every year all the settlements in all the territories [of the West Bank] continue to grow. There is a certain contradiction in this between what we're actually seeing and what we ourselves promised. . . . We have obligations related to settlements, and we will honor them."
However, in the same interview he said that the expansion of two existing settlements will not be stopped; Israel will build more dwellings in these settlements to accommodate a growing population.
They do speak a different language in the Middle East. Don't they?
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