Despite Bush rebuke, work goes on at West Bank settlement

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/April/middleeast_April323.xml§ion=middleeast

MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank - Labourers were hard at work on Tuesday building a new neighbourhood in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem that has triggered a rare US rebuke for Israel.

In unusually sharp words for his close ally, US President George W. Bush publicly reminded Prime Minister Ariel Sharon three times at their summit on Monday that Israel was obliged to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied territories as part of its commitments to the Middle East roadmap peace plan.

Bush’s comments were prompted by the Israeli government’s recent decision to approve plans for 3,500 new homes at Maaleh Adumim, which lies some five kilometres east of the Holy City.

Maaleh Adumim is already home to some 28,000 people but Sharon’s ultimate objective is to effectively link the settlement to Arab east Jerusalem, thus severing the link between the rest of the West Bank and the part of the city which the Palestinians want as the capital of their promised future state.

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1. Good thing we've got Bush on our side n/t

:P

[LynnTheDem]

2. Gee, even your criminal buddy Sharon doesn't bother listening to you, bush

You're a big ugly NOTHING, bush.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Empty Reminders To a Pal.

Bush's "sharp words" was just a publicity front. Bet Sharon and Shrub laugh at the media and those who believe them behind their backs.

[Erika]

4. Agreed - Bush says 1 thing & does another

Know him by his works, not his words. Reason why many think he's the anti-Christ. His works are evil,

[Matilda]

5. Now don't go moving more people into them there settlements, Ari.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink

[southlandshari]

6. Our tax dollars hard at work.

Ugh.

[napi21]

7. I think Sharone is an ass, but at least he's doing better than

our own AH's in the House and Senate. He flat out ignores Shrub when he disagrees with him. Gee, I wonder how Shrub is going to sleep tonight after finding out that he can't coerce EVERYBODY?

[southlandshari]

8. kick

n/t