As President Barack Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the U.S. and Israel are making headway on negotiations to end the construction of new Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
"Both sides believe we are making progress on the settlement issue," Gibbs said Tuesday morning.
Obama was meeting later at the White House with Mubarak, who said on Monday that it's time to move past the old demand that Israel halt settlement construction before further talks can take place.
"Instead of saying stopping more settlements, and we heard this many times now for over ten years and never come to a stop," he said. "What I can say is that we have to consider the whole issue holistically, to negotiate on the final resolution."
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