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News Amona Settlers Reach Evacuation Deal — After a Night of Raging and Raving
Saturday night, the West Bank hilltop Amona was transformed into a rave, as hundreds of religious teenage boys pumped their fists into the chilly air while a psychedelic van blasted techno music. Nearby, girls in long skirts and winter coats danced behind a wooden partition, out of sight of their male peers. Revved up by…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Gave $10K to Radical West Bank Settlement
President-elect Donald Trump once donated $10,000 to institutions located in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, one of its founders revealed on Sunday. Yaakov (“Ketsale”) Katz said in an interview with the settler radio station Galey Israel that the donation was made in honor of Trump’s lawyer and friend David Friedman, whom he has…
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Fast Forward Norway Town Will Boycott West Bank Settlement Products
– The city council of Tromso in Norway adopted a resolution calling on its residents to boycott products made in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The resolution was adopted Wednesday, according to the municipality’s website. Seventeen members voted against the resolution, which stated that “the municipal council encourages Tromso Municipality’s residents to boycott…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Woman Arrested in West Bank Car-Ramming Attack
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian woman was arrested by Israeli border police officers after she attempted to run over security forces as a West Bank checkpoint. The woman, identified by police as a 34-year-old resident of Beit Hanina in eastern Jerusalem, stopped driving during the early Tuesday afternoon attack when police officers shot in the air,…
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Fast Forward Knife-Wielding Palestinian Killed by Israeli Troops at West Bank Checkpoint
Israeli paramilitary police officers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian who ran toward them brandishing a knife on Thursday, police said. Police spopkeswoman Luba Samri said the 18-year-old Palestinian had got off a bus at a main West Bank junction and appeared suspicious to border policemen stationed there. “The suspect did…
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Fast Forward State Department: Outpost Bill “Profoundly Damaging” to Peace Prospects
(JTA) — The U.S. State Department said it was “profoundly concerned” about a controversial bill that would help legalize West Bank outposts built on Palestinian land. When asked about the measure, known as the Regulation Bill, State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday during a press briefing also called enactment of such a law “profoundly damaging…
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Fast Forward Germany Bluntly Urges Israel To Drop ‘Illegal’ Settlement Land Grab Bill
Germany urged Israel in unusually strong language on Wednesday to scrap legislation that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, saying this would break international law. Germany tends to be more reserved than other European nations in its criticism of Israel due to the legacy of the…
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Fast Forward Israel Advances Bill to Legalize Settlements on Palestinian Land
Israel’s parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a revised bill that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The proposed law has already drawn sharp international condemnation and strained relations within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing right-wing coalition. Israeli critics and Palestinians have called it a…
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