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Building Freeze Violations
Jerusalem/I'M — Some 29 West Bank
settlements have violated the construc-
tion freeze, Israel's Defense Ministry
reported.
Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai
on Monday released a list of the settle-
ments that have continued construction
despite a 10-month freeze announced
in late November by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Peace Now said Monday that it had
identified five additional settlements
that also have continued building despite
the freeze.
The freeze, which does not cover
buildings for which a foundation
had already been laid before its start,
was announced in a bid to bring the
Palestinians to the peace-negotiating
table, but the Palestinians have refused
to resume negotiations until all con-
struction in all settlements and eastern
Jerusalem is halted.
India Chabad Targeted?
Mumbai/JTA —A bomb that explod-
ed in a crowded cafe in India was likely
meant for the nearby Chabad house,
Indian authorities said.
The bomb that detonated Saturday
in Pune killed nine people and injured
57. The bakery is located several dozen
yards from the city's Chabad house.
Purse is 125 miles southeast of
Mumbai, where in November 2008 a
major terrorist attack in the city at sev-
eral sites simultaneously, including the
Chabad house, killed 179 people, includ-
ing six Jewish victims at the Jewish
center.
Indian Home Minister Palaniappan
Chidambaram said Sunday that the
Chabad house in Pune had been under
surveillance by David Headley, an
American of Pakistani descent in prison
in Chicago for allegedly scouting out
targets for the Mumbai attack.
The Pune bomb that detonated
Saturday evening was left in the cafe,
called the German Bakery, in a shop-
ping bag by terrorists pretending to be
customers, according to reports. Police
have speculated that another terrorist
was meant to pick up the bag and take
it to the nearby Chabad house, Haaretz
reported. The bag exploded when a
waiter opened it.
Iran Ups Danger
Tehran/JTA — The world has "little
choice" but to impose "greater costs" on
Iran for its refusal to cooperate on the
nuclear issue, Hillary Rodham Clinton
said.
The rebuff of a U.S.-led offer to
enrich uranium for medical research in
exchange for greater transparency and
a refusal to deal with United Nations
nuclear inspectors "have caused us to
wonder: What does Iran have to hide?"
the U.S. secretary of state said Sunday,
addressing the U.S.-Islamic World
Forum in Qatar, an event organized by
the Brookings Institution, a Washington
think tank with close ties to the Obama
administration.
"Why is Iran refusing to live up to its
international obligations, which would
lead to political and economic integra-
tion with the international community
that would actually benefit the Iranian
people?" she said. "Iran leaves the inter-
national community little choice but to
impose greater costs for its provocative
steps
The Obama administration wants the
U.N. Security Council to pass another
set of sanctions targeting the regime
and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, its
theocratic militia. Separately, Congress
is set to pass broad unilateral sanctions
that would target Iran's energy sector.
A major obstacle to multilateral sanc-
tions has been the hesitancy of Russia
and China, major powers that trade
with Iran and have veto power on the
Security Council. In a question-and-
answer session after her speech, Clinton
said Russia was on board.
"Russia, both publicly and privately,
has said that it can and will support
sanctions:' she said. "We are working on
the language and trying to make sure
that they are as effective and targeted as
we can make them:'
Palestinian Statehood
Washington/JTA — The U.S.-led
Quartet on the Middle East will intensify
its efforts to facilitate Palestinian state-
hood.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton released a statement
Feb. 11 after speaking with Tony Blair,
the former British prime minister who
is the chief envoy of the Quartet, the
body guiding Middle East peace-mak-
ing comprising the United States, the
European Union, Russia and the United
Nations.
Blair, the statement said, will "inten-
sify his partnership" with George
Mitchell, the top U.S. envoy to the region.
This will be "consistent" with Palestinian
Authority Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad's "plan for a future Palestinian
state the statement said. Fayyad has
said he wants statehood by 2012.
The statement outlined Blair's mis-
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