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Israel's Enemy From Within: Jewish Settlement Extremists

Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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by Matt McAllester, GlobalPost JERUSALEM -- The terrorist walked up the quiet alleyway, police say, and went down nine steps and found himself hidden...

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Aristotle Negotiates the Middle East

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? Who can persuade whom of what?

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Israel Settlement Halt: U.S. Hints At Flexibility

Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations could possibly resume without a complete freeze in Israeli building of Jewish settlement...

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Netanyahu In London Vows To Seeks Compromise With U.S. On Israeli Settlements

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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LONDON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to defuse an unusually public spat with the United States over West Bank settlements wh...

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Partial Freeze On Israeli Settlements Reason To Be Cautiously Optimistic

Hagit Ofran | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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President Obama, following his meeting with President Mubarak, said yesterday: "There has been movement in the right direction" referring to the repor...

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Israeli Settlements Quietly Halted: No New Housing Permits Granted

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel has quietly moved to halt new housing projects in the West Bank, while outwardly rebuffing U.S. pressure to stop construction...

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Mitchell Presses Israel On Settlements

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister and the top U.S. Mideast envoy said they made progress Tuesday on their dispute over West Bank settlements, ...

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2 Ultra-Orthodox West Bank Settlements Reveal Hope For A Deal

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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MODIIN ILLIT, West Bank Seen from afar, this fast-growing settlement embodies everything that the Obama administration wants to address through its de...

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Hitler, Palestinian Mufti Photo Circulated By Lieberman To Justify East Jerusalem Construction

Haaretz | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered diplomats to use an old photograph of a former Palestinian religious leader meeting Adolf Hitler to cou...

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Israeli Settlements: France Calls for Halt In E Jerusalem, Joining US, Russia

AFP | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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France has summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to demand a halt to Jewish settlement building in east Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchne...

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East Jerusalem Settlements: Russia Joins US In Calling For Construction Halt

AFP | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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Russia called on Israel Tuesday to put an immediate halt to a controversial building project in occupied Arab east Jerusalem, saying the plan violated...

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US Settlements Stance Inconsistent With Past Agreements: Israeli Official

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy prime minister said Tuesday the Obama administration's call to freeze West Bank settlement construction undermines p...

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Israel's East Jerusalem Construction To Proceed Despite US Wishes

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an...

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Israel Rejects U.S. Call To Halt Jerusalem Project

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an...

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Obama Calms Jewish Leaders: Press Has Built Up Conflict

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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In an hour-long meeting at the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama assured Jewish leaders that he was demanding as much sacrifice from the A...

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2,500 Israeli Settlement Housing Units Approved By US: Israeli Newspaper

Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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Despite consistent US efforts to convince Israel to freeze all settlement activities in the West Bank, in accordance with the 2003 Road Map, US offici...

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23 Israeli Settlements To Be Evacuated Soon: Ehud Barak

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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In a sign that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell are making headway in their London talks over the Middle E...

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EU Slams Israel On Settlements

Associated Press | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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The Foreign Ministry on Monday said the EU ambassador to Israel was called in for explanations after the European Commission said Israel's settlement ...

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Lieberman: As Settler, Will Stay Out Of West Bank Negotiations

Haaretz | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that he had deliberately chosen to avoid taking part in the debate over West Bank settlement, as his ow...

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Obama Settlement Stance Draws Fire From All Directions

Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Though President Obama is reported to be taking an unprecedentedly harder line on Israel's settlement activities, expressed through statements by rank...

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US, Israel Close To Settlement Deal: Ehud Barak

Jerusalem Post | JPOST.COM STAFF | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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Before heading back to Israel from New York following his meeting with US Mideast envoy George Mitchell, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday mo...

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Settlements: Israel May Compromise Amid Broader Peace Effort

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM Israel would be open to a complete freeze of settlement building in the West Bank for three to six months as part of a broad Middle East pe...

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Settlements: Israel Approves Plan To Build 50 West Bank Homes Despite Obama Plea

Huffington Post | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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Israel's Defense Ministry approved the construction of 50 new homes Monday in the settlement of Adam, north of Jerusalem, to house evacuees from anoth...

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