WEST BANK: RESIDENTS OF THE WEST BANK SETTLEMENT MA'ALE ADUMIM FAVOUR SETTLEMENT EXPANSION

Record ID: 566177

  • Title: WEST BANK: RESIDENTS OF THE WEST BANK SETTLEMENT MA'ALE ADUMIM FAVOUR SETTLEMENT EXPANSION
  • Date: 12th April 2005
  • Summary: (BN10)MA'ALE ADUMIM SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV OF MA'ALE ADUMIM SETTLEMENT, JERUSALEM IN BACKGROUND 0.05 2. LV OF SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION 0.08 3. SLV OF OF LABOURERS WORKING AT SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 4. LV NEW HOUSES BEING BUILT 0.26 5. SLV LABOURERS WORKING ON ROOF, JERUSALEM IN THE BACKGROUND 0.33 6. LV/SLV OF CRANES DIGGING AT CONSTRUCTION SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.47 7. LV OF SITE 0.53 8. SV SETTLERS SITTING IN COFFEE SHOP IN MA'ALE ADUMIM 0.58 9. MCU (English) LOCAL RESIDENT SAYING: "It's (Ma'ale Adumim settlement) an extension of Jerusalem and there is space to build. I don't think (Hebrew: How do you say disturb?) it doesn't need to be a problem" 1.11 10. SLV OF PEOPLE IN COFFEE SHOP 1.17 (BN10)RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. LV PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER AHMED QURIE CONVENING CABINET MEETING 1.21 12. SV MINISTERS AT MEETING 1.27 13. MCU (Arabic) PRIME MINISTER AHMED QURIE SAYING: "We welcome the part that is related to the request of President Bush to stop the settlement activity and to ask for the removal of all random outposts that are being erected by Israel on a daily basis. We hope that the Israeli government will abide without wasting time because this decision (opposing settlement activity) has been taken a long time ago" 1.54 14. LV OF MEETING 1.58 15. SV EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE 2.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: MAALE ADUMIM SETTLEMENT, RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA2UAXNOFS6CKIB00L4V1RCQ6O7
  • Story Text: Despite Bush's warnings, Ma'ale Adumim residents
    favour settlement expansion.



    Residents of the West Bank settlement Ma'ale Adumim
    expressed satisfaction on Tuesday (April 12) regarding a
    planned expansion of their settlement to the Israeli
    capital of Jerusalem.

    "It's an extension of Jerusalem and there is space to
    build. I don't think (Hebrew: How do you say disturb?) it
    doesn't need to be a problem" said a local resident with
    reference to the Ma'ale Adumim settlement.

    The topic has become a particularly heated one,
    following a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
    Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush in the Crawford,
    Texas.

    Bush reprimanded Sharon on settlement expansion and
    told him not to expand any of the settlements within the
    occupied West Bank.

    Palestinians fear the project to build 3,500 homes for
    Israelis between the settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and
    Jerusalem would cut them off from the eastern part of the
    holy city which they want as the capital of a future state.

    "We welcome the part that is related to the request
    of President Bush to stop the settlement activity and to
    ask for the removal of all random outposts that are being
    erected by Israel on a daily basis. We hope that the
    Israeli government will abide without wasting time because
    this decision (opposing settlement activity) has been taken
    a long time ago" Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie
    told reporters during the weekly cabinet meeting in the
    West Bank city of Ramallah. Though Bush told Sharon at his Texas
    ra
    nch on Monday
    (April 11) that he must meet Road Map obligations to stop
    expanding settlements, Sharon made no firm commitments.

    Sharon has found himself at odds with Bush over his
    stated intention to link Israel's biggest West Bank
    settlement, Ma'ale Adumim, to Jerusalem, a project still
    only on the drawing boards but which has outraged
    Palestinians who want the land for a state.

    Israel regards all of Jerusalem, including the
    eastern part of the city it captured in the 1967 Middle
    East war, as its capital, a claim that is not accepted by
    the international community.

    Israeli government sources said the Ma'ale Adumim plan
    was being tweaked by the military's Civil Administration in
    the West Bank before its presentation to the Housing
    Ministry, which would be responsible for soliciting bids
    from contractors.

    Palestinians fear that a Gaza evacuation plan by
    Sharon, scheduled for mid-2005, is a ploy to trade the
    impoverished coastal strip where 8,500 settlers live for
    large swathes of the West Bank, where most of Israel's
    240,000 settlers reside.



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