The first known European settlement on Poplar Island was established in the sixteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They negotiated a settlement, and the men on both sides went home.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Johnston said he had the power to surrender all the Confederate armies everywhere in the South he said he would do so if Sherman agreed on a political settlement.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government's freeze on construction in West Bank communities.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

The U.S.has demanded a complete freeze on settlement expansion, including natural growth, but Mr.Netanyahu is offering a compromise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The Palestinian official says any compromise by Mr.Abbas on the settlement issue would impede the creation of a viable independent Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

The Palestinians have demanded a complete freeze on settlement expansion before returning to negotiations and reject Israel's offer of a partial freeze.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

The Obama administration wants a total freeze on settlement expansion something Mr.Netanyahu has said Israel will not do.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The United States and Palestinians have demanded a complete freeze on settlement construction, but Israel refused and has offered a partial freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The settlement issue will be high on the agenda this week, when Prime Minister Netanyahu holds a series of high-level talks in Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

U.S.envoy George Mitchell met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but failed to achieve a breakthrough on a halt to Jewish settlement expansion.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

An aide to President Abbas accused the Obama administration of backtracking on its earlier promises to push for a freeze on settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The Palestinians say there must be some progress on the settlement issue before any meeting takes place.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Mitchell said he hopes to end the settlement controversy soon and move on to peace talks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Israel has rejected U.S.demands for a total freeze on settlement construction, souring relations with Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

But Israel says the Palestinians imposed an unacceptable precondition namely,a complete freeze on settlement expansion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Palestinian leaders on Sunday stuck to their demands that Israel stop all settlement activity before any resumption of peace talks that have been stalled since December.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

President Obama called for a return to peace talks on Thursday, two days after the Israeli government announced a partial settlement freeze in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Speaking on Palestinian radio, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said there will be no compromises from their side on their demand for Israel to freeze settlement activity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Israel plans to build nearly 700 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, defying demands by the United States and the Palestinian Authority for a freeze on settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,speaking on Palestinian radio, said Mr.Abbas would tell Mitchell there will be no compromises from the Palestinians on their demand for a settlement freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"There's quite a bit of concern and disappointment in President Obama, in the sense that Israel sort of under attack on all of these settlement issues, on Jerusalem,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The United States has demanded a complete freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem, and Israel's refusal has strained ties between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Israel has been agitated by President Obama's plan to open a dialogue with Iran, while pressing for a one year freeze on Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to Jewish settlers angry over his plan to declare a partial freeze on settlement construction in response to demands by the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

We hope that there is good progress." Israel is offering a partial settlement freeze: construction on 3,000 housing units in the West Bank will continue, but no new projects will be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Chair of the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo Walid Kazziha says that it is likely that Mr.Netanyahu will be attempting to get Mr.Mubarak to ease pressure on Israeli settlement issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton,in her calls to the Pakistani leadership on Saturday, urged a non-violent settlement of the confrontation with the opposition and said that there should be no impediments to peaceful, democratic assembly.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16