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Quiet
Negotiations
16 Housing construction on
ifie West Bank at issue
in Middle East peace
talks.
STEVE RODAN and
adMOHAMMED NAJIB
• Special to The Jewish News
srael and the Palestinian
Authority are quietly negotiat-
ing a halt to Jewish housing
construction in the territories in
exchange for the delay or cancellation
of further Israel Defense Force pull-
*backs in the West Bank, a government
official said Saturday night.
The official, who also is participat-
ing in the current Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations, said the focus of these
efforts are in Washington where,
with the help of U.S. mediators, both
sides are working on what he called a
package deal. The proposed accord
would link all Israeli and Palestinian
, concerns raised over the past year.
The key to the deal, the negotiator
said, is a trade-off between a
Palestinian demand for a halt in settle-
ments with an Israeli demand that the
"-Luther redeployment in the West
Bank be delayed.
"Right now, we are working on
questions of how long there should be
**such a halt in settlement and whether
we can trade that with a delay or can-
cellation of the redeployment," the
negotiator said.
The negotiator said the current
apommittee talks in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem will not be concluded until
an agreement is reached in
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A Palestinian Authority official con-
firmed the assessment and said the
negotiations in Washington with State
Department officials and envoy
Dennis Ross will determine the out-
come of the committee talks. The
4Washington negotiations are to be
held from Oct. 27-31.
Ross arrived last weekend in Israel
for talks with Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu, President Ezer
Weizman and PA Chairman Yassir
Arafat.
So far, both Israeli and PA negotia-
tors agree that the talks have been
inching along. But some progress is
*being made. 0
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Steve Rodan and Mohammed Najib
write for the Jerusalem Post.
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