1.   The United States has said it will guarantee ten billion dollars in loans to Israel only if it stops building settlements in the occupied territories.

2.   And along this highway, black sharecroppers, evicted for daring to register to vote, built a settlement called Tent City.

3.   Ariel Sharon played a major role in building those settlements and blurring those lines.

4.   As long as settlements are built, he said, a Palestinian state will not be established.

5.   Barak himself, however, has pledged only that no new settlements will be built.

6.   Because no settlement was ever built on top of the city, archaeologists have had a relatively easy time determining its large-scale plan.

7.   Bush called on Israel to stop building settlements in occupied territories, long a source of anger among Palestinians.

8.   But Clinton also criticized Israel for taking unilateral steps, including building Jewish settlements on traditionally Arab land, that enraged the Palestinians.

9.   But Carter presumed he had a promise from Begin to make further peace efforts by refraining from building additional settlements in conquered territories.

10.   But we are not out to destroy this extremist menace so that Israel will be free to build more settlements or to eat up more Palestinian land.