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Breaking News Is Israel’s $18M for Settlements Another Sign of ‘Apartheid’?
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet approved an additional $18.6 million for West Bank settlements to help defray the costs of their “unique security situation,” spurring one Palestinian leader to say Israel “openly supports apartheid.” On Sunday at its weekly meeting, the government approved a budgetary supplement that includes stipends for local councils in the West Bank…
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Breaking News Israel Claims Not To Know How Many Palestinians Live in Settlement Areas of West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel does not know how many Palestinians are living in Area C, the part of the West Bank under Israeli civil and military control, the Civil Administration told a Knesset committee. The Civil Administration relies on figures provided by the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics, which does not break down the figures by area….
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Israel News Why Israel’s Occupation Is Becoming Irreversible — and That’s the Idea
In the hills east of Jerusalem, overlooking the Palestinian city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, stands a religious Jewish settlement whose red-tile roofs, neat gardens and brightly colored playgrounds give the sense of permanence. Mitzpe Yericho has stood on this escarpment, close to the Dead Sea – the lowest point on earth – since…
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Breaking News U.S. Plans Harsher Language Against Israel in Settlements Report
— The United States reportedly will approve harsher language against Israel in a report set to be released by the Middle East Quartet dealing with Israeli settlements and other actions in the West Bank. The focus of the report by the Quartet, the body comprising the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European…
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Breaking News Extremist Settlers Charged as ‘Jewish Terror Cell’ Targeting Palestinians
Israel has arrested six West Bank settlers for violence against Palestinians that included an assault and an attempt to set fire to a home, the Shin Bet security service said on Wednesday, describing the suspects as a “Jewish terror cell.” The group, which included a soldier and two minors, sought to copy the 2015 torching…
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News Settler Leader Replaces Career Diplomat in New York Consulate, and the Left Objects
Israel’s appointment of a settler leader to replace a well-liked career diplomat as the country’s top official representative in New York is unsettling groups on the left, such as the dovish pro-Israel group J Street. Dani Dayan, the former leader of Israel’s settler movement, will replace career foreign service officer Ido Aharoni as Israel’s consul…
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Breaking News UN Blacklists Israeli Businesses Operating in West Bank
JERUSALEM – Israel on Thursday assailed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for adopting a measure that calls for the establishment of a database of businesses “involved in activities” in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, called the database a “blacklist” and said the UNHRC was behaving “obsessively” against Israel. The…
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Breaking News VIDEO: Joe Biden at AIPAC Scolds Israel for Expanding Settlements
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden called on Israel’s government on Sunday to demonstrate its commitment to a two-state solution to end the conflict with the Palestinians and said settlement expansion is weakening prospects for peace. “Israel’s government’s steady and systematic process of expanding settlements, legalizing outposts, seizing land, is eroding in my view the…
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