I Was on NPR Radio, Too

Winkie,

I just heard you on NPR's Linda Gradstein weekly contribution to a Sunday newsmagazine -- doesn't she also work for Palestinian National Radio?

Something about your grandchildren's children living on the land of their ancestors. Very nice. Have a great Pesach.

Jeff

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And thanks, Suzanne.

Here are my words:-

GRADSTEIN: Settler spokesman Yusrael Maidad(ph) says settlers believe that all of the West Bank should remain under Jewish control.

Mr. YUSRAEL MAIDAD (Settler Spokesman): We see the historical pattern of increasing the Jewish population there, of ensuring Israel's security by doing so, by trying to make sure that our second and third generation continue to live there, by drawing in additional sectors of Israel's population, and actually making that piece of territory as much of Israel as physically possible.

GRADSTEIN: That contradicts the U.S.-backed roadmap to peace, which Israel and the Palestinians accepted four years ago. The roadmap calls on Israel to end settlement expansion and on Palestinians to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure. Israeli officials interpret that to mean that natural growth or building houses for children who've grown up in the settlement is allowed. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev says Israel has not violated its commitments.