[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon and Hilary Leila Kreiger - With Secretary of State Clinton calling for an absolute stop to all settlement activity, sources close to Prime Minister Netanyahu said the terms of a settlement freeze still needed to be defined. The settlement issue is expected to be dealt with in working groups that have been set up between the U.S. and Israel. Senior officials in Netanyahu's office said there had been a number of unwritten understandings on this matter with the previous administration. For instance, Israel has been working on the assumption that, with tacit agreement from the U.S., it may build inside the lines of existing settlements in the large settlement blocs that it believes it will retain under any future diplomatic agreement.
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