East Jerusalem Settlements

'Mega-Settlement' Would Create Jewish Band Around East Jerusalem

AP | By KARIN LAUB and DAN PERRY | Posted 12.17.2011

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JERUSALEM -- A plan for settling thousands more Jews in a strategic part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has quietly cleared a key bureaucratic hurd...

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Palestinians Furious Over New Israeli Settlement Plans For East Jerusalem

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — The Palestinians criticized an Israeli decision to push forward plans for 625 new homes in east Jerusalem, saying Thursday the proje...

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Israeli PM Defends Settlement Construction After International Criticism

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Three rockets fired from Gaza exploded in an industrial section of the Israeli city of Ashkelon Monday, the military said, causing n...

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Hamas and Israel Trade Hanukkah Gifts

Ira Chernus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ira Chernus

As Israeli Jews light the rest of their Hanukkah candles, they should keep in mind that the plan they may receive from Washington is very much the same plan Hamas just offered to them as a Hanukkah gift.

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