Settlements

Is Mideast Peace Around the Corner or Far Away?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Salam Fayyad, Peace Process, King Abdullah II, Israeli-Palestinian Crisis, Foreign Affairs, Isreal, Peace, Middle East Peace, Settlements, World News

The question seemed simple. A European official wanted to know if the peace was just around the corner, or far away.

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Woman Wins $10 Millon From Debt Collectors In Court, Can't Collect

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Debt, Debt Collectors, Video, Diana Mey, Debt Collector Settlement, Collection Agencies, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Settlements, Federal Trade Commission, Debt Collector Harassment, Business News

One woman is having trouble getting a debt collector to fork over its debt to her. Diana Mey, a West Virginia housewife, won an eight-figure court...

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A Dangerous Proposal

Einat Wilf | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Middle East, West Bank, Settlements, Israel Palestine, Peter Beinart, West Bank Settlements, The Crisis of Zionism, World News

To be a member of the Israeli left who believes that all Jews should have a voice in shaping Israel's future is to repeatedly witness good intentions ...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Negotiations

Matt Cohen | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: 42, Douglas Adams, Settlements, Negotiations, Business, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Video, Business News

I'd like to examine a great negotiation scene from the beginning of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that sheds some light on pre-settlement settlements, the principal-agency problem, and the gap between positions and interests.

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The Two-State-Solution is Dead, One-State is the Answer

Nehad Ismail | Posted 04.24.2012

Former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg endorsed the one-state solution in an article in Haaretz in December 2011, and called the entire left to do the same. Burg has flirted with the idea in the past, but he was never so explicitly.

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Nevada Police Beating Of Man In Diabetic Shock Produces $300,000 Settlement

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Adam Greene, Crime News, Crime, Caught on Tape, Douglas Lynaugh, Police Brutality, Settlements, Nevada, Police Beating, Adam Greene Police Beating, Henderson, Seth Vanbeveren, Brett Seekatz, Video, Francis Shipp, Crime News

A diabetic who was suffering from insulin shock when Nevada police officers mistook him for a drunk driver and physically assaulted him will receive a...

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Robo-Signing Bank Settlement Is a Criminal Sell Out

Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 04.10.2012

The banks engaged in a years' long pattern of what can only be described as fraudulent if not criminal conduct that would put anyone else in prison for years if not decades, yet banks get to buy off the cops with some money to help just a few of the victims they created.

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The Worst Possible Option

Shai Baitel | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Negotiations, Jerusalem, West Bank, Quartet, State of Palestine, Land Swaps, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Nations, Fatah, European Union, United States, Hamas, Settlements, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, Israelis, Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, East Jerusalem, Russia, Borders, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Incitement, Herzliya Conference, Interim Agreement, Security, Green Line, World News

Whoever agrees that the preferred solution to the conflict are two-states-for-two-peoples needs to realize that this possibility to implement is gradually slipping away while no progress, however small or incremental, is being made.

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Report: Israel Breaks All Settlement Records

Reuters | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Peace Now, West Bank, Reuters, Settlements, Israel Settlement Record, Israel, Israel Settlements, Video, World News

* Peace Now: Chances for two-state solution diminishing * Settlements issue key to restarting frozen peace talks By Ori ...

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Foreclosed Homeowners Could Receive Checks Under Big Bank Settlement

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Beau Biden, Loan Modifications, Eric Schneiderman, Foreclosed Homeowners, Settlements, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Fraud Investigation, Big Banks, Foreclosure Fraud, Business News

Foreclosed borrowers abused by their lenders won't get their homes back, but they could get a little cash from a settlement under negotiation between ...

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Israel Orders New Housing Units In East Jerusalem

Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Housing Units East Jerusalem, Israel Housing Units, Palestinians, Settlements, Israel, Israel Palestinians East Jerusalem, Israel Settlements, Israel East Jerusalem, World News

By IAN DEITCH -- The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister is ordering the building of 2,000 new housing units for Israelis, m...

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

AP | By KARIN LAUB and DAN PERRY | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, Givat Hamatos, East Jerusalem Settlements, Settlements, East Jerusalem, Middle East Peace, World News

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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The Settlements

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Settlements, West Bank Settlements, World News

Mahmoud Abbas must know by now that he has been playing into Netanyahu's hand. He must change his strategy to bring him even better results. Negotiating borders will lead directly to the heart of the settlement issue, and will require their immediate resolution.

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Israel Wants To Build Hundreds Of New Apartments In West Bank

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Israeli Settlements, Settlements, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Settlement Ban, World News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel put out bids Monday to build 336 apartments in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a new blow to international efforts to g...

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How Would You Spend Your Denver Police Brutality Settlement?

The Denver Diatribe | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: John Dicker, Denver Police Brutality, Josh Johnson, Noah Van Sciver, Denver-Pedestrians, Lawsuits, Settlements, Denver Police Excessive Force, Streetcars, Denver News

The Denver City Council approved two more payouts to settle police brutality lawsuits last week. This got us thinking: what would we spend our cash money settlement on?

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How To Blow A Billion Dollars

Georgialee Lang | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Patricia Kluge, Winery, Settlements, John Kluge, Bankruptcy, Divorce, Divorce News

These days millionaires abound, mainly because of the highly inflated value of real estate in certain locales. But billionaires? Far and few between. Think it's not possible for a billionaire to go broke? Think again.

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Mahmoud Abbas: Mr. Consistency

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, Obama, Palestinians, Settlements, Fayyad, Israel-Palestine, Obama Abbas, World News

While Western leaders have warmed up to Abbas and have been pleased with his consistency and demeanor, the Israelis neither recognized nor rewarded Abbas for this consistency and honesty.

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Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: The Fog of Wars, Education in America, Palin in Israel

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Smoking, Bush, Bahrain, Recall Elections, Settlements, Obama, Palin, Bloomberg, Gaddafi, Gingrich, Libya, No-Fly Zone, Education, Middle East, Charter Schools, Anti-Illegal Immigrant Laws, Wayne Barrett, Daniels, Walker, Death Penalty, Sb 1070, Israel, Katrina. Mary Matalin, Syria, Politics News

With America "firing Tomahawks and teachers" (Jon Stewart), Mary and Wayne Barrett debate Obama's judgments in Libya and classrooms. Then, is the Jewish State a "zoning issue"?

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Killing Fogel Family in Itamar Is Not Acceptable

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innocent Civilians, Wall, Jewish, Political Murder, Palestine, Veto, Americans, Un, Settlers, Settlements, Security Council, America, Palestinians, World News

The strong disagreement over settlement doesn't excuse the brutal killings of the family of five in Itamar. If anything this senseless murder should cause genuine commitment from all sides to find an end to the 44 year old occupation in a peaceful way.

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In Israel, the revolution has already begun

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Egypt Protests, Jerusalem, West Bank, Haaretz, Bradley Burston, Settlements, United States, Barack Obama, Sheikh Jarrah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Revolution, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Mideast, Judaism, World News

People often ask why, at a time when revolutionary fervor has seized nation after nation here in the Middle East, no revolt has yet begun in my countr...

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Understanding Obama's Settlement Posture

Nadia Hijab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Security Council, United Nations, Fatah, Abbas, Israel, Obama, Settlements, Hamas, Netanyahu., Palestinians, World News

When the strongest UN member state asks the weakest not-yet-state to do something, coercion is a good word to describe it -- particularly as the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority depends on U.S. aid for its existence.

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Obama's Veto Is the Wrong Side of History

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nonviolence, Boycott, Palestinian-Israeli, Abbas, Israel, Palestine, Pa, Obama, Veto, Un, Settlements, UN Security Council, Israel Un Resolution, World News

The saying goes that right is might, but apparently when it has to do with Israel, might becomes right.

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Israel Must Get the Monkey of Occupation off its Back

Lara Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Mideast Peace Process, Occupation, Settlements, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Egypt Protests, Israeli Occupation, Egypt Israel Gaza, Egypt Israel, Israel 2011, Israel Settlements, Politics News

Although the events that swept through Egypt in recent weeks had little to do with Israel, they still hold profound lessons.

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In the Dark: Crimes, Capital Crimes, And GE Capital Crimes

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Sec, Ge, GE Capital, Accounting Fraud, Settlements, Bank Fraud, Shadow Banking, Securities and Exchange Commission, Jeffrey Immelt, Business News

If individuals committed crimes at GE, they should pay for their actions. That would be a service to GE's other employees, who would no longer be tainted by the misdeeds of a few senior-level people.

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A Defining Moment for President Obama's Leadership

Susan Abulhawa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, United Nations, Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Obama Israel, Israel Settlements, World News

For Obama to veto a new resolution declaring certain Israeli settlements illegal now would surely corroborate the perception of him as a cowering and ineffectual president who cannot withstand entrenched political pressures.

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