Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

Israelis and Palestinians are, at last, engaged in serious negotiations on the specific elements of a framework agreement on final status. In the wake of May revelations about discussions in Stockholm between Israeli minister of interior Shlomo Ben Ami and Palestinian legislative leader Abu Ala, the Israeli press was rife with reports about an unprecedented Israeli willingness to accede to the creation of a Palestinian state on up to 90 percent of the West Bank.