Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the Bush administration to press Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which he contends is needed to make progress in Middle East peace talks.
The talks are bogged down five months after both sides pledged to reach a deal by January.
In a meeting Wednesday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ahead of talks with President George W. Bush on Thursday, Abbas said time was running out if that target laid out at the Annapolis Conference in November was to be met, according to the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. He said Abbas told Rice that more pressure must be exerted on Israel to …
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