This is the Forward’s coverage of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Settlements
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Opinion Could Settlements Ease Israel Housing Crisis?
Two years after the Tel Aviv social protest movement was born out of anger at high property prices, Israelis have been told that they’ve misunderstood the problem all along. It is, the new Housing Minister insists, that there’s too little settlement activity. “The key to immediately stopping the rise in home prices is massive building…
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Fast Forward Israel Detains 5-Year-Old Palestinian Boy for Throwing Stones at West Bank Settlers
Israel Defense Forces soldiers earlier this week were videotaped detaining a five-year-old Palestinian boy in Hebron, after he allegedly threw a stone at an Israeli car on Tuesday. The video, shot by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, shows soldiers from the Givati Brigade stationed in the West Bank city detaining Wa’adi Maswada, aged five years…
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Israel News Settlers and Palestinians Alike Spew Sewage in Fragile West Bank
It is a different type of Green Line. On a West Bank hill just six miles south of Jerusalem, a row of olive trees looks far greener than anything else in the landscape. This is not thanks to a clever form of growing technology, but because for hours or days each month the trees have…
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Fast Forward Israel Launches Crackdown on ‘Price Tag’ Extremists
Israel announced a crackdown on Monday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property, saying they were tantamount to terrorists and their attacks could fan sectarian violence. The move followed the arrest of a 22-year Israeli from an Orthodox Jewish town near Tel Aviv for the vandalism of a Christian monastery in the occupied West Bank…
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Fast Forward Israeli Extremist Arrested for ‘Jesus Is Monkey’ Graffiti on Catholic Monastery
An Israeli is under arrest for the vandalism of a Christian monastery in the occupied West Bank last year, carried out in solidarity with hardline Jewish settlers, police said on Monday. Graffiti left on the 19th-century Latrun Monastery referred to Migron, an unauthorised settler outpost evacuated by the Israeli government. The words “Jesus is a…
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The Schmooze Settlers Launch Boycott of McDonald’s
The battle between Israeli settlers and the worlds most recognized fast food chain, which began earlier this week with McDonald’s decision to prevent the opening of a new branch in the West Bank, just went up a notch. The leaders of settlers groups are now calling for a boycott against the hamburger empire. “McDonald’s has…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Ready To Give 90% of West Bank Back to Palestinians: Report
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be willing to withdraw from most of the West Bank and evacuate numerous settlements as part of an agreement with the Palestinians, as long as his security demands were satisfied, a senior cabinet minister from Netanyahu’s Likud party told Haaretz. The senior minister, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity…
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Fast Forward McDonald’s Won’t Open Restaurant in Ariel Settlement in Occupied West Bank
McDonald’s Israel declined an offer to open a restaurant in Ariel because it is located in the West Bank. In a statement, McDonald’s said its refusal to open a franchise in the West Bank has “always been the restaurant chain’s policy,” according to the Calcalist, the Israeli business daily that first reported the story. McDonald’s…
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