1.   This constituted an apparent retreat from earlier calls by the Palestinian negotiating team for a total freeze on settlement building.

2.   Mubarak said that the Israeli freeze on settlement building was a good step in the right direction... but more is needed.

3.   Barak has proved a master at presenting himself on the international arena as a peacemaker, but Jewish settlement building has continued on the West Bank.

4.   But is Bill Clinton prepared to exert the kind of pressure that George Bush did, when as president he browbeat Israel into freezing most settlement building?

5.   It also mandates a freeze on all settlement building.

6.   Israelis point to the unending terror and Palestinians to Israeli settlement building and continued military repression in the West Bank.

7.   It is why he says that that and other settlement building must cease before the peace process can resume.

8.   New settlement building is already frozen, but Israel now permits the expansion of existing settlements to allow for population growth.

9.   Once he takes office, Barak will have the authority to suspend settlement building and, Arens has said, even reverse the decision to expand Maale Adumim.

10.   Peace moves have been deadlocked mainly over Jewish settlement building, Palestinian suicide bombings and the scope of an Israeli troop pullback from the West Bank.