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Israel News Israel’s New Settlement Slammed by U.S. as Betrayal of Shimon Peres Legacy
The Obama administration cast Israel’s plan to build 300 units deep inside the West Bank as a betrayal of U.S. friendship and of Shimon Peres’ legacy. The statement Wednesday by Mark Toner, the deputy State Department spokesman, was unusually lengthy and emotional in tone. Toner cited a $38 billion defense assistance agreement with Israel reached…
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Breaking News 70 American Intellectuals Call for Boycott of Israeli Settlements
— More than 70 American intellectuals called for a targeted boycott of all goods and services from Israeli West Bank settlements. The boycott call, an open letter, was published in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books, which is dated Oct. 13. Among the signers are Bernard Avishai, Peter Brooks, Peter Beinhart,…
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Breaking News U.S. Slams Israel for New West Bank Settlement Expansion
— The U.S. State Department condemned the announcement that an Israeli planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of housing units in four West Bank settlements. “We’re deeply concerned by the government’s announcement to advance plans for these settlement units in the West Bank,” State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday, in answer to a…
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Israel News Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Famously Disorganized — Except in Occupied West Bank
The Israeli chapter of the U.S. Republican Party is getting out the vote for Donald Trump, with a special focus on West Bank settlers. The campaign is opening two offices in the West Bank, one in a private home in Karnei Shomron in the north and the other in a yet-to-be-decided location in Gush Etzion,…
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News Ousted From Gaza, 10,000 Jewish Settlers Join Quixotic Push To Return
Ari Odess lived for 10 years in Tel Katifa, a Jewish settlement on Gaza’s coastline, before he left under Israeli order eleven years ago. Though he has found a new home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, he dreams of returning his family of 12 to live near the Gaza seaside. Now, Odess is the leader…
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Breaking News U.S. ‘Deeply Concerned’ Over Israeli Settlement Expansion Plans
— The U.S. State Department said it was “deeply concerned” over construction plans in eastern Jerusalem. The Israeli government on Wednesday announced the approval of tenders for 323 apartments in eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods, on top of plans for 770 units in the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo, which has a population of 40,000 and also is…
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Opinion Documentary About ‘The Settlers’ Shows Them as Israeli Left Wants To See Them
Shimon Dotan’s recent documentary, “The Settlers,” currently attracting a lot of attention in Israel, is painfully beautiful. Dotan’s shots capture both the beauty of the West Bank and the complexity of the geopolitics that are tragically tearing it apart. Along with the fantastic production, Dotan’s skills as an interviewer present the settlers, an often-misunderstood segment…
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Breaking News Is Israel’s $18M for Settlements Another Sign of ‘Apartheid’?
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet approved an additional $18.6 million for West Bank settlements to help defray the costs of their “unique security situation,” spurring one Palestinian leader to say Israel “openly supports apartheid.” On Sunday at its weekly meeting, the government approved a budgetary supplement that includes stipends for local councils in the West Bank…
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