When that offer came through, the potential buyer went through the whole process and after several months of negotiation, got the bank to agree to a price lower than market value.

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"There's an amount of negotiation to be done with the bank should January arrive and we have got no further forward with this relocation plan, " he said.

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The humbling of Hizbullah would curb the growing regional influence of Iran and send a sobering message to those Palestinians who have been inspired by Hizbullah to try to liberate the West Bank by violence rather than negotiation.

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