Settlements in Palestine

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Palestinians Fake Cancer To Flee Blockaded Gaza

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that ha...

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Israel Offers 10-Month West Bank Settlement Freeze

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

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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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Mahmoud Abbas Resists U.S. Pressure To Resume Peace Talks

Reuters | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian president on Wednesday resisted U.S. pressure for a resumption of peace talks with Israel, repeating h...

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Amnesty: Israel Withholds Water From Palestinians

AP | MICHAEL BARAJAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the We...

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Israel To Build New Houses In Settlements: Prime Minister Netanyahu's Aides

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel said Friday it will construct hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before any slowdown in building, an anno...

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France: No More Settlements For Mideast Peace

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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PARIS — France's foreign minister says an agreement on freezing Jewish settlements must be reached for international Mideast peace efforts to su...

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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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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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Fruit Trees Now Victims of War

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

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Have you been following the sad story of the Palestinian olive trees being attacked and destroyed by Israeli settlers?

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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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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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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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The Coming Storm: Obama and American Jewry

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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Sunshine Jewish patriots who back Israel when convenient will be pitted against those who stand with Israel even when it means losing their invitation to the White House Chanuka party.

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Israeli Settlers' 'Obama Hut' Constructed To Mock Cairo Speech

Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect il...

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UN: Israel Demolitions Must Cease

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

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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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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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Another West Bank Settlement Expansion: Silence = Death

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

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Did you ever consider what the State of Israel could accomplish if it didn't dedicate its resources to security (legitimate) and maintaining the occupation (illegitimate)?

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The Violence And Settlements Anathema, Part 2

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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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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