Israeli Settlements

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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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Stopping Construction, Building Peace

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Peace with its neighbors, not the sensitivities of a small minority of religious settlers, has to be Israel's ultimate objective.

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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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Huckabee In Israel: A Palestinian State Within Holy Land "Unrealistic"

AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

JERUSALEM — The U.S. has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements, hindering peace negotiations, former Arkansas gove...

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Mahmoud Abbas: No Peace Talks Until Israel Freezes Settlement Construction

Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that peace talks with Israel will not resume until Israel completely freezes construction in the ...

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GOP Delegation In Israel Contradicts U.S. Policy

AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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JERUSALEM — The Obama administration's policy on Israel is misguided, puts too much emphasis on the issue of settlements and ignores the bigger ...

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Hamas Chief Outlines Terms For Talks On Arab-Israeli Peace

wsj.com | JAY SOLOMON and JULIEN BARNES | Posted 09.01.2009 | World

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DAMASCUS -- The chief of Palestinian militant group Hamas said his organization is prepared to cooperate with the U.S. in promoting a peaceful resolut...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Push for Peace in Israel SI Analysis: The Obama administration is making a concerted effort to restart pe...

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West Bank Settlers Send Defiant Message To Obama, "That Arab They Call A President"

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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NERIA, West Bank In this land of endless history and ethereal beauty, several thousand Jewish settlers gathered on a dozen West Bank hills with makesh...

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VOICES FROM JERUSALEM: The City and the Dogs: A Psychedelic Tour through Jerusalem's More Peculiar Districts

Ir Amim | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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These murals present a reality that is imaginary, illusory, and utterly alienated from the treachery conducted beneath and atop the very grounds of the holy basin of the Old City.

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Yitzhak Rabin's Killers Target Obama (VIDEO)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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Who are the Israeli Prime Minister's real friends? The settlers who cheered Rabin's murder and now inveigh violently against Obama, or the American administration that has pledged to help his country?

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Obama's Peace Offensive (Part 2)

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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Ending the settlements expansion is one of the most critical elements in changing the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

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Obama's Peace Offensive (Part 1)

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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On a recent trip to the Middle East I had the opportunity to meet with Israelis and Palestinians from all walks of life. What I saw reconfirmed the lack of political cohesiveness within both communities.

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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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Obama Called "Racist" By Israeli Rabbi

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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A settler rabbi in Jerusalem has labelled Obama a 'racist' at a rally to protest the United States' call for a total freeze on Israeli settlement cons...

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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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Settlers' Spin

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

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The number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an area that Palestinians regard as the heart of their future state, is swiftly approaching half a million.

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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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The Obama-Likud Staredown: Who's Going to Blink?

Amjad Atallah | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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Let's hope that the US does a better job in earning Israel's respect than the Palestinians have in their negotiations thus far.

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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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Avigdor Lieberman To Miss Mitchell, Gates Israel Visit

Jerusalem Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be out of the country for most of next week when two major US policy makers, Middle East envoy George Mitchell...

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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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Olmert's Settlement Blues

Matthew Duss | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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Despite it's promises not to take actions that would prejudice a final outcome, for years, Israel has gotten away with building and expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

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