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Fast Forward 11 Police Officers Injured By Settlers In Evacuation Of West Bank Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 11 police officers were injured and six Jewish teens arrested during the clearing of a West Bank outpost. The evacuation of the Tapuach West outpost began on Saturday night and continued into Sunday. The Supreme Court had ordered the evacuation of the ten mobile homes located on privately owned land….
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Fast Forward Teenage Settlers Attack Soldiers Sent To Evacuate Them From Illegal Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Teenage settlers who erected an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank attacked Israeli soldiers who came to evacuate them. The evacuation on Saturday was met with rocks and pepper spray, according to reports. The soldiers reportedly shot into the air and used tear gas and other riot dispersal methods to halt…
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Fast Forward Settlements, Pro-Orthodox Policies Threaten Israel’s Existence, Lauder Writes
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Openly breaking with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said current Israeli government policies threaten Israel’s democratic character and even its existence. Lauder, in an Op-Ed on Monday in the New York Times, also pressed hard for a two-state solution, significant because the cosmetics billionaire has the…
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Community Do Israeli Settlers Have Any Power In America?
Almost exactly three years ago, I woke up in my Jerusalem apartment to the news that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party surprised the country and all of its polling experts by dominating the ballots, securing a fairly straight path to creating what many believe to be Israel’s most right-wing coalition in its history. My concerns…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Delays Demolition Of West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court delayed by three months the scheduled demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost built completely or in part on Palestinian-owned land. The court on Wednesday agreed to a government request to postpone the demolition in the Netiv Haavot outpost while it prepares temporary housing for the 15 families…
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Community The Israeli Settlement Movement Is Failing
Earlier this week, settlement movement leader Yaakov Katz, in comments to the Associated Press boasting about the growth of the settler population in the West Bank, illustrated well the old saying, “in God we trust; and all others must bring data.” Katz does bring data — but we must not trust them. Contrary to his…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Legalizing West Bank Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to begin legalizing the West Bank outpost of Netiv Haavot was approved by Israel’s Cabinet. More than a dozen homes on the outpost, located 11 miles south of Jerusalem in the Etzion bloc, are scheduled to be demolished next week. The Cabinet approval on Sunday includes funds for the outpost,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador Says Returning West Bank Land ‘Could Lead To Civil War’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Evicting hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank “could lead to civil war in Israel,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told American Jewish leaders. Friedman, the official representative of the Trump administration in Israel, made his comments on Monday night during an off-the-record briefing in Jerusalem for about…
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