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Israel: Up to Palestinians after Settlement Offer
(AFP) "The ball is now in the Palestinian court," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month easing of new Israeli construction in the West Bank. The move was praised by the U.S. as a step towards relaunching peace talks, but the Palestinians said it fell far short of their demand that a complete settlement freeze precede any negotiations. "We have done everything possible for Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas]," Lieberman told Israeli public radio. "The government has made unprecedented gestures and all we have received in return is blows and anti-Israeli maneuvers on the international front by the Palestinian Authority."