Jewish Settler Population Grows Despite Peace Moves: "The Jewish settler population in the Palestinian Territories grew by more than 5,000 in the first half of 2003, despite U.S.-backed peace moves requiring an end to construction at settlements, Israel said on Thursday.
The figures could complicate Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas's talks on Friday in Washington, where he will urge President Bush to increase pressure on Israel to implement peace moves and release Palestinian prisoners."

Why would that "complicate" talks? Surely this is one of the key issues, and has to be addressed. Unless of course Bush doesn't intend to address key issues. In which case he is clearly not going to create peace.
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