"A Palestinian official said Friday that a draft proposal for a new UN Security Council resolution seeks 'accountability' for Israeli settlement building.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said the draft stresses the 'violence and terrorism of the settlers.'...
Israel says settlements and other core issues such as security should be resolved in peace talks.
The draft resolution, already distributed to Arab nations at the UN in New York, was immediately condemned by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 'is taking a step that will push negotiations further away' to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict..."