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Breaking News John Kerry Struggles To Contain Damage From Israeli Settlement Building
Secretary of State John Kerry sought on Tuesday to prevent the fracturing of his Middle East peace initiative, which faces its greatest threat to date from a series of Israeli announcements of new settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Even as he was making his first visit to South America as secretary of…
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Breaking News Peace Talks Resume Under Cloud of New Settlements
A 10-minute drive from where negotiators will sit down on Wednesday to resume long-stalled Middle East peace talks, Israeli bulldozers are busy reshaping land that Palestinians want for their future state. Settler homes are popping up across East Jerusalem and major roads are being built to burgeoning Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel…
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Breaking News Israel Approves 900 More Homes in East Jerusalem
Israel’s Interior Ministry gave final approval on Monday to a plan to build 890 new apartments in Gilo, a settlement neighborhood beyond the Green Line in southern Jerusalem, just one day before Palestinian leadership is slated to make a final decision on whether to attend Wednesday’s scheduled negotiating session with Israel. It will be a…
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Breaking News EU Guidelines on Settlements Will Undermine Talks, Says Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday that the European Union’s new guidelines on Israel’s settlements in the West Bank undercut the freshly resumed peace process and strengthen the Palestinian position. In a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, where he was recovering from a recent hernia…
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Breaking News Palestinians Say Settlement Plans Undermine Talks
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday Israel’s plans for new homes in Jewish settlements on occupied land were aimed to scupper peace talks that resume on Wednesday. Israel this week gave preliminary approval for 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, put on the market plots for 1,200 more and were…
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Breaking News Israel Marketing Settler Homes Two Days Before Prisoner Release
Israel said on Sunday it was marketing nearly 1,200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, just two days before a planned release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners. Israel has made a major push on settlements since the resumption on July 30, after a three-year break, of U.S.-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood. Israeli…
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Breaking News Israel Pleads With Europe for Rethink on Settlements
Israel appealed to the European Union on Friday to rethink planned sanctions against its organisations in the occupied territories and called for talks, a shift in tone from previous Israeli anger and retaliatory measures. Under guidelines adopted by the executive European Commission in June, Israeli “entities” operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will…
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Breaking News Israel Gives Green Light for 878 Settlement Homes
The Civil Administration, Israel’s highest civilian authority in the West Bank, approved construction plans on Wednesday for 878 housing units in isolated settlements across the territory. Discussion of some of the plans had initially been postponed following U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians would resume, but was brought…
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