Moreover, many Israelis are beginning to resent what the settlement policy costs them.

The second major influence of statutory planning in rural areas has involved settlement policy, and is clearly related to general land use control.

Indeed, economies of scale are likely to vary so much between different services that they cannot all be served by a single settlement policy.

The key settlement policies are a case in point.

Israel, to be sure, has made mistakes, starting with its disastrous settlement policy.

He is also seen as an architect of the Israeli settlement policy.

But whatever his intention, alarm over Israel's settlement policies spread.

The move should not be taken as an endorsement of the current Israeli government's settlement policy, they said.

One of the most critical issues for the peace process is the Israeli settlement policy.

The Council has made its views clear more than once on Israel's settlement policy.