based Al-Yaum, commenting on the Israeli settlement policy, said the new settlement project in al-Quds will complicate the mission of Mitchell, the US mediator, and will also hike Arab doubts about the intentions of Netanyahu's government. "Settlements in Al-Quds is an expansionist dream for all Israeli consecutive governments and it embodies a long-term strategy for making Al-Quds as an eternal capital of Israel," said the daily. America tried to put pressure on Israel so as to force it abandon its settlements policy, but when it realized the insistence of the Jewish state on going-ahead with its settlements policy, Washington resorted to the proposal of freezing the settlements for a limited time so as to start indirect negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis, the daily elaborated.
