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"We all share an obligation to create the conditions for the prompt resumption and early conclusion of negotiations," he said in Jerusalem.

US relations with Israel are said to be tense since President Barack Obama's speech to Muslims in Cairo last week.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure to back a two-state solution.

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While international law tolerates military occupation, it does not approve it, specifically one that has continued for over 40 years as in the case of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Furthermore, during that time, Israel has introduced two other elements—colonialism and apartheid. Although there are many similarities between apartheid as it was applied in South Africa and Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the systems are not identical. There are featu