This is the Forward’s coverage of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward ANALYSIS: Obama Has Few Options to Revive ‘Dying’ Two-State Solution
The Obama administration is looking for ways to save what the White House sees as a “dying” two-state solution. But Donald Trump’s election as president has reduced the president’s options to symbolic gestures. Some in the administration have acknowledged that Israeli settlement activity on the ground has created a “de facto annexation” of the West…
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News LOOK: 11 Astounding Images of Jewish Settlers in Colonial America
With the presidential election at hand, and Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s a good time to remember that Jews have been a part of United States history since before there was a United States. The New York Historical Society makes it easy in a new exhibit: The First Jewish Americans – Freedom and Culture in…
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Community Want to Prevent BDS? Speak Out Against the Destruction of Susya.
Last November, I was one of 100 J Street U students from across New England who attended a meeting at Harvard Hillel with Barry Shrage. Shrage is the President of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (the Boston area’s Jewish Federation) as is seen as an important and respected figure in the Boston Jewish community. We discussed…
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Opinion Why the Fight Over Israeli Settlements Is Reaching a Boiling Point
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught in a tightening pincer of opposing pressures as his government faces a court-ordered December 25 deadline to dismantle the West Bank’s oldest and largest illegal settlement outpost. The main combatants include Israel’s Supreme Court, the settler movement and the Obama administration. Caught in the middle are Netanyahu and…
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News The Kabbalist Who Would Be King of a New Jewish Monarchy in Israel
The crowd was eclectic, from stern, black-garbed ultra-Orthodox men to youths of both sexes bedecked in colorful, hippie-like clothes. They hailed from homes as far as Safed, the kabbalist center in Israel’s North, and as remote as isolated hilltop settlements in the occupied West Bank. Even a few New Age types from secular Tel Aviv…
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Israel News Israel’s New Settlement Slammed by U.S. as Betrayal of Shimon Peres Legacy
The Obama administration cast Israel’s plan to build 300 units deep inside the West Bank as a betrayal of U.S. friendship and of Shimon Peres’ legacy. The statement Wednesday by Mark Toner, the deputy State Department spokesman, was unusually lengthy and emotional in tone. Toner cited a $38 billion defense assistance agreement with Israel reached…
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Fast Forward 70 American Intellectuals Call for Boycott of Israeli Settlements
— More than 70 American intellectuals called for a targeted boycott of all goods and services from Israeli West Bank settlements. The boycott call, an open letter, was published in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books, which is dated Oct. 13. Among the signers are Bernard Avishai, Peter Brooks, Peter Beinhart,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israel for New West Bank Settlement Expansion
— The U.S. State Department condemned the announcement that an Israeli planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of housing units in four West Bank settlements. “We’re deeply concerned by the government’s announcement to advance plans for these settlement units in the West Bank,” State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday, in answer to a…
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