21.   Six times the size of La Belle, the ship carried most of the supplies with which La Salle hoped to build his settlement.

22.   The Bush administration even withheld some American loan guarantee funds for Israel when an earlier government, led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, built additional settlements.

23.   The former Likud defense minister spent years building Jewish settlements to prevent any part of the strategic West Bank from leaving Israeli control.

24.   The Israelis are still confiscating land, demolishing houses and building settlements.

25.   The Israelis stayed with the occupation, they confiscated more land, they cointinued to build more settlements. . .

26.   The Israelis say the agreement allows them to build settlements in Jerusalem.

27.   They are enraged that Israel continues to build settlements on the West Bank and to fragment the occupied territories into cantonments.

28.   Trust was undermined when the right-wing Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu built more Jewish settlements and dragged its feet on carrying out commitments to relinquish territory.

29.   Palestinians hope to build a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and fear that Jewish settlements are built to block that dream.

30.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has said he would not resume talks unless Israel abandons plans to build the settlements.