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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Fast Forward Anti-Occupation Groups Make Case at Limmud
A group which encourages Jews to oppose the Israeli occupation has sparked a lively debate at its debut session at the 2012 Limmud Conference on Jewish life and identity. Yachad, which was founded in 2010, “aims to discuss the occupation not with the outside world, but within Jewish communities,” the group’s chairman, Daniel Reisel, told…
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Fast Forward Israel Ups Ante With 6K More Settler Homes
Israeli officials said they would press on with plans this week to build 6,000 homes for settlers on land claimed by Palestinians, defying criticism from Western powers who fear the move will damage already faint hopes for a peace accord. Stung by de facto recognition of Palestinian sovereignty in a U.N. General Assembly vote last…
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Fast Forward More Than 400 Jewish Clergy Press Netanyahu on E1
More than 400 American Jewish clergy asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go ahead with new construction in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. “We fear that building settlements in E1 would be the final blow to a peaceful solution,” read the letter released Monday and…
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Fast Forward Israel Approves 1,500 More Settlement Homes in East Jerusalem
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes on land it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Washington had condemned the latest plans, for ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood Ramat Shlomo, when they were published…
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Fast Forward Two-State Solution Hangs in Balance, Obama Waits
President Barack Obama may have believed he had at least until his inauguration next month to renew efforts to forge a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but events since he won re-election have put fresh demands on the president. Since the U.S. election, we have witnessed another mini-war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza;…
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Israel News Could Plan for E1 Be Just a Bluff?
For Israelis living at the epicenter of the settlement-building storm, there’s widespread suspicion that Bibi is bluffing. For all the fury at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to approve 3,000 new units in areas that Israel captured in 1967, it was another, vaguer part of his building plan that riled the international community. This was…
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Opinion Fizzing for Trouble With Super Bowl Ad?
Move over Bud Lite and GM, SodaStream is coming to the Super Bowl XLVII. While the Israeli-made home soda maker will not be seen in the stands, it will be viewed on TV screens across the country and around the world, making it the first Israeli product to be advertised in a Super Bowl commercial….
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Fast Forward Palestinians Appeal to U.N. Over E1 Plans
The Palestinians appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from making plans to build 3,000 apartments in a controversial area outside of Jerusalem. In a letter to the Security Council, the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. secretary-general, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations said the announced plans represent “Israel’s contemptuous…
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