81.   They boiled down to a freeze on government spending on new settlement building and an end to land confiscation for houses.

82.   Tibi had warned during a speech at a Palestinian rally in January that the intifada or revolt against Israeli occupation could flare anew unless Jewish settlement building was halted.

83.   Israel and the PLO have kept alive their autonomy negotiations despite a gathering storm over the pursuit of Jewish settlement building.

84.   Netanyahu has refused to contemplate a freeze on Jewish settlement building, saying it would reward Palestinian violence.

85.   Mitchell calls for a cooling-off period and a freeze to settlement building among other measures, before a restart of political negotiations.

86.   Netanyahu has rejected US and Palestinian demands for a freeze on settlement building pending those final status talks.

87.   Netanyahu promised to update Washington when his government took concrete decisions on settlement building while Clinton agreed to refrain from publicly exerting pressure on Israel, they said.

88.   Netanyahu spokesman David Bar-Illan reaffirmed Wednesday that any freeze on settlement building was out of the question.

89.   Netanyahu was speaking during a debate on a vote of censure of the government, following its partial freezing of Jewish settlement building around Jerusalem.

90.   PLO chairman Yasser Arafat who demands to share Jerusalem as a joint capital and wants a halt to all settlement building.