61.   The PLO wants the settlements to be dismantled.

62.   The settlement drive will put the government on a collision course with the Palestinians, who want Jewish settlements to be dismantled under a final peace deal.

63.   The US leader also urged Israel to eventually withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories and dismantle Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

64.   It ruled out dismantling Jewish settlements there, however.

65.   Palestinians want all Jewish settlements dismantled.

66.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has repeatedly rejected proposals to dismantle settlements in the five-year interim period of Palestinian self-rule.

67.   Rabin has said no settlements will be dismantled during the five-year interim period of autonomy.

68.   Sharon has vowed not to dismantle any settlements, which is seen as a roadblock to any potential peace deal.

69.   That called on Israel not to make any demographic or geographic changes to Jerusalem during the interim period of Palestinian preace process and insisted on dismantling settlements.