11.   Palestinians charge that expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is making it near-impossible for them to establish a state there.

12.   Palestinians view those who sell land to Jews as traitors because they fear the land will come under Israeli sovereignty, diminishing their hopes of establishing a state.

13.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is determined to establish a state on the West Bank and in Gaza, with its capital in Jerusalem.

14.   Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

15.   Peace in the Middle East will not prevail until Israel withdraws from Palestinian lands and a Palestinian state is established, the Syrian foreign minister said.

16.   Palestinians hope to establish a state in the West bank and Gaza Strip and regard settlements in those lands as an obstacle to peace.

17.   Palestinians say land sales allow the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem and threaten their hopes to establish a state there.

18.   Palestinians say they are engaged in a bitter battle with Israel over the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem where they hope to establish a state.

19.   Palestinians see the sale of land to Israelis as a threat to their hopes of establishing a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.

20.   Palestinians see the settlements as harmful to plans to establish a state in the West Bank, with east Jerusalem as its capital.