Netanyahu fears assent talks delay. Tue, Mar twenty-three 2010 Israeli PM: Jerusalem not settlement < 1 / 3 > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday in a bid to ease stretched ties but with low hopes for any new thing in the stalled Middle East assent process.
The talks, scarcely low form for a on vacation Israeli leader, were hold a day after Netanyahu struck a daring note in the face of new U.S. critique of Jewish home building a whole in a piece of the assigned West Bank annexed to Jerusalem.
American and Israeli officials have sought to get family behind on lane after the housing brawl overwhelmed off the misfortune tactful difference in between Washington and the close fan given Obama took bureau last year.
In a pointer of White House concerns about slow tensions, press coverage of the Oval Office talks was barred and no open statements were planned.
Netanyahu, underneath heated vigour at home from members of his right-leaning coalition, was display couple of signs of subsidy down during his American trip.
Before saying Obama, Netanyahu told U.S. lawmakers he feared assent talks might be behind for an additional year unless Palestinians dump their direct for a full freeze on Jewish settlements.
"We contingency not be trapped by an fallacious and irrational demand," Netanyahu pronounced during a assembly with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and alternative congressional leaders, according to his spokesman.
"It could put the assent negotiations on hold for an additional year," he pronounced of the talks, that have been dangling given Dec 2008.
Palestinian officials pronounced it was Netanyahu"s routine that was keeping the assent routine in limbo.
The Palestinians retreated from their agreement to proceed indirect, U.S.-mediated assent talks dual weeks ago after Israel voiced plans to set up 1,600 homes for Jews in an area of the assigned West Bank annexed to Jerusalem.
KEEPING OUT OF SPOTLIGHT
Despite a guarantee from Netanyahu of confidence-building stairs -- that have not been disclosed publicly -- to inspire Palestinians to lapse to talks, the White House sought to keep his assembly with Obama out of the spotlight.
It was hold in the early dusk after Obama"s signing of turning point healthcare remodel bill.
The proclamation of the doubtful housing plan coincided with a revisit to Israel this month by Vice President Joe Biden and drew clever U.S. condemnation.
Israel prisoner East Jerusalem, along with the West Bank, in a 1967 fight and regards all of Jerusalem as the capital. The Palestinians wish East Jerusalem as the collateral of a state they goal to settle in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"Netanyahu"s routine is the one that is interference the lapse to negotiations," Nabil Abu Rdainah, a comparison help to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"We are ready to go behind to negotiations if Netanyahu adheres to what came in the matter of the Quartet."
At a assembly in Moscow on Friday, the Quartet of mediators -- the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations -- called on Israel to freeze allotment wake up in line with a 2003 assent "road map."
That plan additionally thankful the Palestinians to take movement to lame militants.
Netanyahu began his Washington revisit on Monday, delivering a daring residence to the successful pro-Israel run AIPAC in that he spoken "Jerusalem is not a settlement."
(Additional stating by Susan Cornwell; modifying by Chris Wilson)
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