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Breaking News Germany, France Slam Israel For New West Bank Land Grab
BERLIN/PARIS — Germany and France on Wednesday criticized Israel’s decision to appropriate large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank, saying the move violated international law and contradicted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday the land was near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho….
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Breaking News Obama Administration Raps Israel for West Bank Land ‘Expropriation’
JERUSALEM — The U.S. State Department criticized Israel for “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea. The declaration turning the 580 acres of West Bank land into Israeli state land was signed by the Civil Administration’s Head of the Government Property on March 10 during a visit to Israel and…
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Breaking News Israel Makes Massive New Land Grab in West Bank
JERUSALEM – Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday. Israel’s Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in a 1967 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234…
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Breaking News Pro-Palestinian Activists Demonstrate Against Brooklyn Non-Profit That Backs Settlers
A group of 30 students and pro-Palestinian activists protested Friday to demand the end of tax-exempt status for the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn not-for-profit that supports Jewish settlers in the West Bank city. The demonstrators gathered outside the Midwood headquarters of the group that they say provide invaluable support for settlers who have destroyed the…
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Breaking News Israeli Settlement Businesses Face Growing Pressure
When engineer Rami Bone goes to work each day at his company in the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, he doesn’t see himself as violating international law. A resident of Tel Aviv, Bone (Bon-eh) started his company over 25 years ago, before Israel and the Palestinians signed an interim peace accord….
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Breaking News 40% of New West Bank Settlement Building Is Beyond Security Barrier
Construction was started on 1,800 new housing units in Jewish settlements in 2015, with some 40 percent outside of the security fence, according to a new report. Included in the housing starts are 1,547 permanent structures and 253 mobile units, Peace Now said in a report released Sunday. Sixty-three of the buildings were public structures,…
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Breaking News Dutch Store Promotes Israeli Settlement Products to Protest Labeling Laws
A store owned by Dutch Christian Zionists advertised to its customers products from Israeli settlements to protest an E.U. requirement that they be labeled separately. The Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, a town situated 20 miles east of the Dutch capital, advertised the products in question specifically in a letter dated Feb. 10 by Pieter…
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Letters Ending Business Activity in Settlements Isn’t ‘Collective Punishment’
In an editorial published on January 21, Jane Eisner opposes Human Rights Watch’s call for businesses to pull out of Israeli settlements because it “would grind economic activities to a halt, hurting ordinary citizens both Israeli and Palestinian,” amounting to “collective punishment.” This assessment doesn’t stand up to analysis. There are two separate economies in…
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