Israeli Settlements

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Israel's Fictional "Undivided Jerusalem."

James Zogby | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem Expansion, Israel, Middle East Peace, East Jerusalem, World News

Israel's near hysterical reaction to a Swedish proposal to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state is framed in language that masks their real intent.

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Israel's 'Settlement Freeze'

The Real News | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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

Toufic Haddad, co-author of Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror, and Palestine correspondent for The Faster Times speaks in Jerusalem to Lia Tarachansky of The Real News about Israel's "settlement freeze."

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Trust the Settlers to Lose the West Bank

Bradley Burston | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli Settlements, Settlement Freeze, Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Bradley Burston, Settlers, Barack Obama, World News

If past experience is any guide, only the settlers themselves are capable of doing what is needed to bring about a pullout. And if present indications hold, at some point, they will do just that.

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With Secretary Clinton, Why Envoys?

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, Robert Gates, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Barack Obama, World News

Even though Sec. Clinton's power among Israelis is strong, she's not the one facing doubt. It's likely only Pres. Obama can make the Israelis move to meet the Palestinians.

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New Construction in East Jerusalem: What It Really Means

Ir Amim | Posted 12.04.2009 | World

Read More: Us Middle East Policy, Israeli Settlements, Israeli-Palestinian-Negotiations, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Gilo, World News

Even countries known for their support of Israel do not accept the legality of Israel's unilateral annexation of East Jerusalem. None has set its embassy in the capital.

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Jewish Nationalists Clash With Palestinians In East Jerusalem (VIDEO)

Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Israeli Settlements, Video, World News

Bloody clashes have occurred in East Jerusalem after Jewish settlers moved into land formerly occupied by Palestinians. According to the BBC, the iss...

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The Settlement Freeze -- Very Hard To Believe

Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Peace Now, World News

At least in terms of words and declarations, there is a settlement freeze; in terms of deeds -- it is too early to know.

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Israel Offers 10-Month West Bank Settlement Freeze

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Settlements in Palestine, Israeli Settlements, Settlements, Israel, Israel Settlements, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday proposed a 10-month halt to new construction in West Bank settlements as a step toward restarting Mideast peace ...

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Mets' Citi Field to Host Pro-Settlements Hebron Fund

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, New York Mets, Hebron Fund, Israeli Settlements, The Hebron Fund, Citi Field, Settlements, Israel, New York News

The US government should examine the appropriateness of US non-profits receiving tax breaks for providing funds to Israeli settlements that undermine US foreign policy and hopes for peace in the Middle East.

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Palestinians To Appeal To UN For State, As Peace Talks Stall

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appear...

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Clinton on Settlements: The Power of Words

Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Hillary Clinton, Peace Now, Peace, Israel, World News

Based on the zeal with which the media jumped on the non-story of Clinton's speech in Jerusalem, it is hard to avoid the impression that a lot of people are more interested in seeing Obama fail than succeed.

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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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It Will Take More Than a Wall To Silence Us

Jamal Juma' | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Israel, Israel Wall, World News

If President Obama is to live up to his Nobel, then he should insist that trapping Palestine's emerging Gandhis and Mandelas behind walls is incompatible with a peaceful and just future.

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What Is Going on Today in the Settlements?

Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Middle East Peace, Peace Now, World News

The talk and the press reports over the last few months about settlement construction and a settlement freeze have left many confused.

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Netanyahu Today: First Hell Freezes, Then the Settlements

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, World News

Israeli prime ministers understood that Palestinians viewed the expansion of settlements as something unacceptable during negotiations. This all changed with an interview in Sunday's Washington Post.

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Palestinian, Israeli Farmers Fight Over Olive Groves

GlobalPost | Sara Sorcher | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, Isreali-Palestinian Crisis, Palestinians, Israel, Israel Palestine, World News

By Sara Sorcher AWARTA and SUSYA, West Bank -- The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest bring...

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Deteriorating Reality in the Shadow of Catastrophic Scenarios

Ir Amim | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Israeli-Turkish Relations, Third Intifada, Israeli-Jordanian Relations, Haram Al Sharif, East Jerusalem, Temple Mount, World News

Focusing public discussion on the possibility of a coming intifada creates its own perils. It shifts the public's attention away from the inherently dangerous policies being pursued in Jerusalem.

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Aristotle Negotiates the Middle East

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Aristotle, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Benjamin Netanyahu, Settlements, Hamas, Israel, Israel Hamas, Israel Settlements, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News

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

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The Cruel Dilemma Facing the Jews of Israel

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Mort Zuckerman, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, World News

The progress being made by the Palestinians, in terms of controlling the terrorists and criminal gangs, is one of the most promising developments to have occurred in decades.

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Netanyahu, the Tunnels Opener

Hagit Ofran | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Elad, The City of David, Israeli Settlements, Silwan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Israel, World News

Last week, an incident that could have set the entire Middle East on fire was prevented. Netanyahu's secret plan to visit a disputed tunnel in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan was canceled.

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Hope, Hype, and the Many Faces of Barack Obama

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hugo Chavez, Israeli Settlements, Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Middle East, Afghanistan, Iaea, Richard Goldstone, Muammar El-Qaddafi, United Nations, Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News

We will fondly remember our nation's potential to be a force for good in the world under President Obama, but we will always wonder why that potential was never actualized.

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Israel Summit A Victory For Settlement Stand, Says Avigdor Lieberman

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Netanyahu Abbas, Lieberman Israel Summit, Israeli Settlements, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel Summit, Israel, Obama Israel, UN General Assembly, Israel News, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday that the summit of Israeli, U.S. and Palestinian leaders proved Israel could successfully f...

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Obama: Israel, Palestinians Must Do More For Mideast Peace

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Israeli Settlements, Obama Netanyahu, Obama Abbas, Obama Israel, UN General Assembly, Obama Palestine Talks Sept 2009 Photo, g20 Pittsburgh, World News

NEW YORK — Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiati...

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West Bank Settlements Become Havens Of Israeli Surburbanites

csmonitor.com | Ilene R. Prusher | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: West Bank Protest, More West Bank Settlements, West Bank, Israeli Settlements, West Bank Israel, Israel Palestine, West Bank Settlements, Israel, West Bank Settlers, Palestine Israel, Israeli Neighborhoods, World News

Meet the Ovadiahs, the Allons, and the Cohens. They're new arrivals in Israeli neighborhoods where freshly laid red-tile roofs and toddler toys dottin...

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