Mr. Patrick Costello:

I will respond briefly to the final question on settlements. I have been working in the area where 4,000 dunums of land were seized. It has not yet been build on. If there is sufficient action and external pressure, no settlements will be built on it. We need to act - strongly and quickly - in order that there will be no settlement building and to maintain a viable Palestinian state. One of the problems is that Bethlehem can be choked. Any chance of peace can be choked. That is why the issues of recognition and settlement need to be acted on quickly. There is still hope, but time is running out.