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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/israel-rapped-over-settlement-issue.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would not negotiate without a freeze of Jewish settlement" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-israel-rapped-over-settlement-issue.jpg" alt="Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would not negotiate without a freeze of Jewish settlement"/></a></p>
<p>Israel has been sharply criticised after its refusal to halt settlement construction forced Washington to drop efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks.</p>
<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted he would not negotiate without a freeze of Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem &#8211; lands captured by Israel and sought by the Palestinians for their state.</p>
<p>He spoke after meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.</p>
<p>&#8220;Without halt of settlements, there will be no talks,&#8221; Abbas said.</p>
<p>With the path to direct talks effectively blocked, it is not clear what the Obama administration will do next.</p>
<p>Israeli and Palestinian envoys were summoned to Washington for meetings with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before the weekend.</p>
<p>Israel and the Palestinians had launched the latest round of peace talks on September 2 at a White House ceremony. But less than a month later, negotiations broke down after Israel refused to extend a 10-month-old freeze on West Bank housing starts that ended at the end of September.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, the US had tried to persuade Israel to extend a limited West Bank settlement freeze for 90 days, offering a series of security and diplomatic incentives. However, the negotiations over an extension broke down, and US officials announced this week they had abandoned that approach.</p>
<p>Washington did not cast blame. But other members of the so-called Quartet of Mid East mediators, which also includes the EU, the UN and Russia, sharply criticised Israel.</p>
<p>&#8220;I note with regret that Israel has not been in a position to accept an extension of the (settlement) moratorium, as requested by the US, the EU and the Quartet,&#8221; said Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief.</p>
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