21.   Palestinian officials warned that settlement expansion encouraged violence and threatened the peace process.

22.   Palestinian concern about settlement expansion is especially high now, amid expectations that a final peace deal with Israel might not be reached for years.

23.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday condemned settlement expansion.

24.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recently extracted a letter from U.S. President Bill Clinton that reiterated in the strongest terms yet U.S. opposition to settlement expansion.

25.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accelerated settlement expansion in his three years in power, drawing criticism from the United States which has demanded a building suspension.

26.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday praised Jewish settlement expansion in the face of U.S. criticism and Jewish settlers seized a West Bank hilltop for several hours.

27.   Peace group to monitor settlement expansion by air.

28.   Protest tents have become a Tamari trademark in his fight against Israeli settlement expansion.

29.   Also Tuesday, senior Palestinian officials were detained by Israeli troops during three protest marches against settlement expansion organized by the self-rule authority.

30.   Albright also took Netanyahu to task for continued settlement expansion, Maariv said.