On Monday, Hussein Said Hussein Abu Aliya found olive trees poisoned, he said, by settlers. By ISABEL KERSHNER The New York Times Published: October 12, 2010 TURMUS AYA, West Bank — Palestinians from villages like this one in the West Bank governorate of Ramallah still remember when the olive harvest was a joyous occasion, with [...]
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Abbas signals renewed settlement construction won’t end talks
Abbas has repeatedly threatened to walk away from peace talks, launched this month in Washington, if Israel resumes building in its West Bank settlements. By Barak Ravid, Natasha Mozgovaya and The Associated Press Haaretz Wed, September 22, 2010 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has signaled that a renewal of settlement construction in the West Bank [...]
Norway Oil divests from Africa-Israel
The Jerusalem Post Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Norway’s Ministry of Finance announced that the Norway Oil Fund divested from Africa-Israel Investments and Danya Cebus Ltd. on Monday. The reason given is the companies’ construction in the West Bank. The Norwegian Finance Ministry said, “The ethics council stresses that construction of settlements in the occupied territories [...]
PA lowers volume on mosques near settlements
Maan News - 11 August 2010 BETHLEHEM — The Palestinian Authority has reportedly agreed to an Israeli request to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers in Palestinian villages surrounded by settlements. The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday that the PA has also agreed that Friday prayers will be held in one mosque per village, after [...]
Who’s aiding Judaisation?
By Nicola Nasser* Since 1860, when the American Jewish tycoon Judah Touro donated $60,000 — a fortune for that time — towards the construction of the first Jewish settlement outside the old walls of Jerusalem, public and private American funds have aided the creation and territorial expansion of Israel. Israel today is the foremost recipient [...]
Israel: Warped Mirrors and White House Sofas
By Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus July 16, 2010 If anyone had doubts about the outcome of recent talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barak Obama, they were put to rest July 13 when Israeli authorities demolished three Palestinian houses and announced the construction of 32 new homes in East [...]
Protesters greet Netanyahu in Washington as Israel expands settlements
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010 Hundreds of activists in Washington, DC demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit on Tuesday, 6 July. As protesters held signs calling on the US government to end military aid to Israel, Netanhayu met with US President Barack Obama in a meeting [...]
Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank
By JIM RUTENBERG, MIKE McINTIRE and ETHAN BRONNER The New York Times – July 5, 2010 HAR BRACHA, West Bank — Twice a year, American evangelicals show up at a winery in this Jewish settlement in the hills of ancient Samaria to play a direct role in biblical prophecy, picking grapes and pruning vines. Believing [...]
Settlements Control 42% of West Bank Lands
imemc - July 06, 2010 by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights In The Occupied Territories Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42% of the land area of the West Bank, and the [...]
For Netanyahu, to Freeze or Not to Freeze is the Question
by Joharah Baker Media Monitors Network – Tuesday, July 6, 2010 A follow-up to this article will certainly be written after September 25, the cutoff date for the end of the Israeli government’s so-called moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank. For now, however, the question is whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will [...]
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