Israeli settlement expansion is killing possibility of any two-state solution (Khalid Amayreh)
Salam Fayyad admits there are no peace prospects
Khaled Amayreh reports for Al Ahram from the West Bank
- Israel's "lack of will" to reach a genuine final-status settlement
- Israel reneging on commitments to the roadmap
- continuing Israeli settlement building particularly in East Jerusalem
- continued presence of hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank
- Israeli Housing Minister, "bids will go out soon to build 1,100 apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem."
- Israel is killing the two-state solution by continuing Jewish demographic expansionIsraeli
- Israel aims to destroy the Hamas government to lower Palestinian national expectations.
- "Without Hamas there can be no peace, and the entire area may turn into another Iraq."