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Israeli Settlements

Obama Takes Toughest Stance With Israel In A Generation

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Barack Obama, Israel, Obama, Foreign Affairs, Aaron David Miller, Obama Israel, Israel Settlements, Obama Tough Israel, Obama Tough on Israel, World News

Beginning in the weeks leading up to President Obama's meetings with Middle Eastern leaders, the administration laid the groundwork for its strong pos...

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Wake Up, Israel

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Obama Netanyahu, Obama Israel, Middle East Peace, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

Do not allow this historic chance for peace to slip away because of complacency or lack of courage. If Israel is destined to bring light onto other nations, this is the moment.

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Why a Jewish Settlement Freeze Has Become the Defining Issue

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmood Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two State Solution, Israel, Occupation, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Settlement activities including the so-called "right to natural growth" are clearly rejected in the road map agreement which Israel signed to and the Knesset approved.

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Israel Rebuffs US Call For Total Settlement Freeze

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel rejected on Thursday a U.S. demand to freeze all construction in West Bank Jewish settlements to encourage peace talks, deepe...

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Israel To Propose Settlement Compromise To U.S.

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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MAALEH ADUMIM, West Bank — Israel scrambled Tuesday to sidestep President Barack Obama's demand for a West Bank settlement freeze with a diluted...

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Netanyahu Defies Obama On Israeli Settlement Freeze

Reuters | Adam Entous | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rebuffed U.S. calls to impose a freeze on all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, sett...

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Maoz Esther: Israel Evacuates West Bank Outpost In Gesture To Obama

Israel News | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

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In an apparent nod to diplomatic pressure exerted by the Obama administration, Israeli security forces evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of M...

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Obama: Israeli Settlements "Have to be Stopped"

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Palestinians, Obama Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Without a settlement freeze, there can be no progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Obama, Netanyahu, Two States for Spoiled Brats

Bradley Burston | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Israeli Settlements, Mideast, Bradley Burston, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S., Barack Obama, World News
Bradley Burston

Washington and the world have allowed Israel and the Palestinians to run off the rails in whatever direction they happen to see fit at the moment. Why? They're afraid of them.

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UN: Israel Demolitions Must Cease

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nir Barkat, Jews, Israeli Settlements, Demolition, Israel-Palestine, Settlements, East Jerusalem, Settlements in Palestine, West Bank, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Arabs, Jerusalem, Palestinian Home Demolition, World News

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has issued a report detailing the difficulties facing Palestinians in East Jerusalem who ...

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Netanyahu's Deal: Bushehr for Settlements

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Annapolis Peace Conference, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Settlements, George MItchell, Middle East, Ehud Olmert, Bushehr, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Avigador Lieberman, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, World News
Jamal Dajani

It hasn't taken Benjamin Netanyahu long to show his true colors by creating new hoops for the Palestinians to jump through in order to resume peace ne...

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Illegal West Bank Settlement Enjoys State Funding: BBC

BBC | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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An unauthorised Jewish settlement in the West Bank, illegal even under Israeli law, appears to benefiting from state funding, the BBC has uncovered....

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Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews

Hammad Hammad | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, West Bank, Judaism, Christianity, Old City, Israel, East Jerusalem, Jews, Judiasm, World News
Hammad Hammad

Treating Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem as foreigners who entered Israel is astonishing, since it was Israel that entered East Jerusalem in 1967.

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The Two-State "Solution" is No Solution

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Mideast Peace Process, Gaza, West Bank, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Israel, Palestine, Obama, Two-State Solution, u.s. Foreign Policy, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

Secretary of State Clinton stated that the U.S. will vigorously pursue a two-state solution every step of the way and underscored that there is no time to waste. While this reinvigorated U.S. engagement in the Israel-Palestine conflict is welcome, the declaration is too little, too late.

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Hillary Clinton In West Bank: Calls Israeli Home Demolitions 'Unhelpful'

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts Wednesday an...

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Israel's New Settlement Plans Decried By Saudi Arabia

Arabnews.com | By P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Territories, Human Rights Israel, King Abdullah, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Israel, Al-Bustan, World News

Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned the Israeli plan to evict 1,500 Palestinians from the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Jerusalem and urged the international...

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Conditioning Part of U.S. Aid to Israel on Implementation of U.S. Policy

Robert Naiman | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Congress, Israel, George MItchell, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Just as Washington must demand policy changes in exchange for insuring Wall Street banks, so Washington must demand policy changes in exchange for insuring Israeli government policies.

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West Bank Settlement Gets Green Light For Major Expansion

Haaretz | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

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Some 1,700 dunams of land in the northern part of Efrat were declared state land last week, paving the way for the West Bank settlement to start the p...

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The Violence And Settlements Anathema, Part 2

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Settlements in Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Settlements, Israeli Settlements, George MItchell, Israel, Obama Middle East, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

George Mitchell must address the two core sensitive issues that both Israelis and Palestinians place tremendous importance on -- ending the violence and fundamentally shifting the settlements policy.

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The Violence And Settlements Anathema, Part 1

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, George MItchell, Gaza, West Bank, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Mitchell Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Obama Administration, Obama, Obama George Mitchell, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Israel, George Mitchell Israel, Middle East, Northern Ireland Peace Process, 100 Days, Foreign Policy, Obama Middle East, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

George Mitchell's emphasis on diplomacy will certainly help him tremendously on his mission, but he may need more than that to pierce through this conflict that has eluded all of his predecessors.

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Historical Amnesia and Gaza

The Real News | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Military, West Bank, Gaza, Middle East, Phyllis Bennis, United States, Israel, The Real News, World News
The Real News

After giving a brief background on the events that led to the invasion of the Gaza Strip, Bennis explains the various ways in which the United States facilitates Israel's activities.

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West Bank Stories

Jamal Dajani | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Middle East, Israel, Settlers, Hebron, Terrorism, World News
Jamal Dajani

If Israeli settlers can make property claims in East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-exist 1948, why can't Palestinians make similar claims in West Jerusalem?

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Olmert: Israel Must Withdraw From West Bank

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

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JERUSALEM — Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Ministe...

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Will Lehrer Ask McCain, Obama About Israeli-Palestinian Peace?

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, John McCain, Jim Lehrer, Israel, Debates, Barack Obama, Media News
Robert Naiman

The first 2008 presidential debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain will focus on foreign policy and will occur this coming Friday. Jim Lehrer...

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First New West Bank Settlement in Ten Years?

The Real News | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, West Bank, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, United Nations, Separation Wall, Middle East, Aparteid, Israel, Politics News
The Real News

The so-called apartheid wall, which is thought to be separating Israelis and Palestinians, is in reality separating Palestinians and creating more isolation in an already desolate situation.

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