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(4 Dec 2012) SHOTLIST
Neve Daniel settlement, West Bank
1. Mid of Palestinian farmer working to plough field
Efrat settlement, West Bank
2. Mid of Israeli flags waving, with settlement in background
3. Mid of houses in Efrat Israeli settlement
Givat Hadagan settlement, West Bank
4. Various of bulldozer at a construction site ++Construction in these shots is not related to new announcement++
Efrat settlement, West Bank
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shai Ben Tekoa, West Bank settler:
"There are people who say we shouldn't live here which would make it the only patch of earth which is forbidden to Jews, most of us don't agree. We believe we have the right to live here."
6. Caricatures of (from left) Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Givat Hatamar settlement, West Bank
7. Wide of Israeli flag flying near Givat Hatamar settlement
8. Mid of temporary housing
Efrat settlement, West Bank
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Hastan, West Bank settler:
"The world begins to criticise. It's hypocritical, it's wrong and we believe we have the right to live here."
Givat Hadagan settlement, West Bank
10. Mid of Palestinian farmer with Givat Hadagan settlement in background
Ramallah, West Bank
11. Wide of central Ramallah
12. Mid of coffee shop
13. Mid of waiter
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nahed Mikki, Ramallah resident
"It means that they don't care about peace at all, the Israelis, and they're not concerned about resuming the negotiations or making any progress."
15. Wide of women sitting in coffee shop
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Amad Safi, Ramallah resident
"It's not going to affect anything but complicate the problems more and more and basically you know deteriorate the peace process."
Maaleh Adumin settlement, West Bank
17. Various of settlement where Israel has proposed to expand, located near E1 area
STORYLINE
Despite the international outrage over an announced Israeli settlement push, Jewish settlers in the West Bank said on Tuesday they support their government's plan to construct thousands of new homes for Jews on war-won land.
Israel continued to defy calls for rescinding its construction plans, announced in retaliation for last week's UN endorsement of a state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967.
"There are people who say we shouldn't live here which would make it the only patch of earth which is forbidden to Jews, most of us don't agree. We believe we have the right to live here," said Shai Ben Tekoa, a West Bank settler.
Israel retaliated for the UN recognition of Palestine by announcing plans to build three-thousand homes in the controversial settlements, as well as preparations for construction of an especially sensitive project near Jerusalem, known as E-1.
The E-1 project, in particular, is seen as a threat to any Israeli-Palestinian partition deal.
It would include more than 3,500 homes, cut off east Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and drive a wedge between the northern and southern West Bank, eroding the possibility of a Palestinian state.
The Israeli reprisal has thrust Israel's strongest Western allies into an unusually harsh showdown with the Jewish state.
"The world begins to criticise. It's hypocritical, it's wrong and we believe we have the right to live here," said Josh Hastan from the Efrat settlement in West Bank.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians say construction in that territory would kill any hope for establishing a viable state of Palestine.


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