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Breaking News Europe NGO’s Say Trade Boosts Israel Occupation
Twenty-two European non-governmental organizations have accused the European Union of aiding Israeli settlements by trading with them. The accusation came in a letter sent on Monday undersigned by the NGOs and by Hans van den Broek, a former European Union foreign policy chief and ex-Dutch foreign minister, AFP reported. The E.U. currently imports $300 million…
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Israel News Will Upgrading West Bank College Boost Boycott Movement?
A decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “strengthen higher education in the State of Israel,” as he put it, may hand the international academic boycott lobby a gift on a silver platter, Israeli analysts say. In September, Israel’s Cabinet approved a controversial plan that will give the West Bank’s Jewish settlements their first university….
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Breaking News Activists Mount Protest at West Bank Supermarket
Some 100 Palestinians and international activists protesting in front of a supermarket in a West Bank settlement called for a boycott of settlement goods. Waving Palestinian flags, the protesters entered the Rami Levy supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, near Beit El, on Wednesday chanting “Out, out settlers” and carrying signs reading “boycott the occupation and its…
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Opinion Bibi’s Brazen Defiance
With brazen defiance, just a day before he is due to meet with the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went over the Green Line and defended building there. “United Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital, we have a full right to build in it,” he declared today…
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Breaking News Snubbing Europe, Netanyahu Tours Settlement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the Israeli settlement of Gilo on Tuesday in a defiant prelude to talks with the European Union’s top diplomat, who has condemned Gilo’s expansion. Israel issued a detailed plan last week for 797 additional homes in Gilo, an urban complex built in a part of the occupied…
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Breaking News Extremist Settlers Torch Palestinian Taxi
A Palestinian taxi was set on fire in a West Bank village near Hebron. The cab reportedly was set on fire early Monday morning. The words “Price tag Sussiya ” were spray painted on a nearby wall. “Price tag” refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact a price in attacks on Palestinians…
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Breaking News Israel Defend New Settlement Expansion Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the finalizing of a plan to build nearly 800 apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. “We place no limits on construction in our capital city,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “Just as they build in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow, we…
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Breaking News Israel Approves More Settlements Near Jerusalem
Israel on Thursday issued a detailed plan for the building of some 800 new homes on annexed land in the West Bank that is certain to attract further international condemnation of its settlement policies. A planning committee issued a call for bids from contractors to start building 797 housing units on the western slopes of…
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