JEWES ARE NOT FREEZE THE SETTLEMENTS IN WEST BANK.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would continue to build within Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, defying US President Barack Obama's call for a freeze. But in a nod to Washington three days before Obama addresses the Muslim world from Egypt, Israel moved against one of the dozens of outposts settlers have erected without authorisation, removing three caravans near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Speaking to parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in Jerusalem, Netanyahu called for "reason and logic" in dealing with settlements in the West Bank, territory Israel captured in a 1967 war. Obama has called for a full settlement freeze, under a 2003 peace "road map" that also obliges Palestinians to rein in militants. The World Court has described all Israeli settlements on occupied land as illegal. "You can't freeze life" in the settlements, an Israeli official quoted Netanyahu as telling the committee in comments that echoed statements the prime minister made last week. "Freezing life would not be reasonable." Netanyahu has said construction has to go on in settlements to accommodate the "natural growth" of families who live there. The road map's construction freeze also applies to "natural growth". He has proposed that Obama accept understandings Israel reached with former president George W. Bush allowing building within existing settlement blocs while barring Israel from building new settlements and expropriating more Palestinian lands, officials said.