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Israel criticised by Britain over West Bank universityHarriet Sherwood - Guardian - "In a statement released on Thursday, the British foreign office minister Alistair Burt said the UK was deeply disappointed by the decision." - id 28/12/2012
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Outpost evacuation fails following clashesItamar Fleishman - Ynet - "Five Border Guard officers were lightly injured and treated at the site. In addition, the tires of two Border Guard vehicles were punctured. Dozens of IDF, police and Border Guard forces took part in the evacuation attempt." - id 28/12/2012
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The Settlement That Broke the Two-State Solution : Ma`aleh Adumim symbolizes why Middle East peace may no longer be possible.LARRY DERFNER - Foreign Policy - "This was the plan of the doves of the Labor Party of that time," explains historian Meron Benvenisti, who was a deputy mayor of Jerusalem in the 1970s. "To keep the land around Jerusalem and give the rest back to Jordan. Nobody was talking about the Palestinians back then."-rh 27/12/2012
Settlers: Latest Approvals First Stage of a New West Bank CityJason Ditz - Anti War.com "Yesterday’s announcement that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved 523 housing units in the settlement of Gva’ot is the first stages of turning the settlement into a full-fledged city, according to settlers.The city would lie just south of occupied East Jerusalem, and would be part of the ring of settlements Israel has been created meant to surround the city, which Palestinians hope would be the capital of an eventual Palestinian state." ca21/12/2012
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Official: Settlers burn cars near NablusMa`an News Agency - "Settlers in the Nablus area set fire to two cars south of Nablus and sprayed graffiti, an official who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank said. Ghassan Daughlas said the cars in Majdal Bani were completely burned. A third car belonging to resident Khalid Anan was also damaged. He said the settlers sprayed racist graffiti urging Palestinians to leave." ca21/12/2012
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Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsSaed Bannoura - IMEMC "Speaking to Maan, Hammad said that “should it become apparent that the Security Council will not take any serious decision regarding Israel’s ongoing violations, the Palestinian leadership will weigh the possibility of heading to the International Criminal Court after obtaining a membership status. " CA21/12/2012
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West Bank Land, Empty but Full of Meaning STEVEN ERLANGER - The New York Times - For the Palestinians, E1 is seen as essential if they are ever to achieve a viable independent state with East Jerusalem as their capital. Palestinians say they need the land to preserve a workable, practical connection between East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and to build housing for Palestinian refugees and their descendants. As important, the Palestinians contend, E1 is central to a crucial north-south route through the West Bank from Ramallah to Bethlehem.-rh 20/12/2012
US hits Israel hard on settlement plansMATTHEW LEE - Associated Press - "We are deeply disappointed that Israel insists on continuing this pattern of provocative action," Nuland told reporters. "These repeated announcements and plans of new construction run counter to the cause of peace. Israel`s leaders continually say that they support a path towards a two-state solution, yet these actions only put that goal further at risk."-rh 19/12/2012
4 EU nations to condemn Israel`s settlements plansReuters - Ynet - "The four European members are France, Britain, Germany and Portugal." - id 19/12/2012
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E1 is not a `land without a people`Activestills - +972 - "Such language reinforces decades-old misconceptions to the casual reader, while the disconnect between the headline and the photo illustrates the internal contradictions of Nakba denial and Zionist mythology: there was no one here, and they all need to leave." - id 19/12/2012
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US condemns East Jerusalem building plan, Palestinians to petition UNThe United States on Monday condemned Israeli plans to build homes in East Jerusalem. PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesperson told AFP that the Palestinian government intends to turn to the Security Council for redress over the Israeli expansion plans.and the Palestinian Authority threatened to appeal to the United Nations Security Council over the move. The Interior Ministry approved on Monday the construction of 1,500 new apartment units in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.18/12/2012
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Hebron: settlements lead to ongoing rights violationsAhmad Jaradat - AIC - "In Hebron and particularly its downtown area, 50 thousand Palestinians live with 500 Israeli settlers scattered throughout five small settlements in the heart of the city, guarded by 2,000 soldiers and facing dozens of checkpoints, iron gates and military centres covering almost all areas of the downtown"17/12/2012
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Israel defiant on settlement expansionKhaled Amayreh - Al-Ahram - "The Palestinian Authority (PA) and bulk of the international community are warning that the plan would put an end to hopes for a negotiated settlement, including the prospects of establishing a viable and contiguous Palestinian state." - id 14/12/2012
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Settlers Attack Children in HebronPNN - Palestinian News Network - "The incident took place around checkpoint 57 in Tel Rumeida, this means that Israeli soldiers were nearby while the aggression took place." - id14/12/2012
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Archaeologists fear their work in Jerusalem may be tainted by settler politicsReid Singer - Art Info - Ronny Reich, an archaeologist at Haifa University, uncovered at East Jerusalem`s Silwan village a Byzantine water pit. The Elad settlers who finance the diggings instructed him to identify it as the "hole" where the Biblical Prophet Jeremiah was imprisoned. Reich told them this was “nonsense”, but the settlers went ahead anyway, announcing to the media "The discovery of Jeremiah`s Hole" and their guides pointing it out as such to tourist groups. 11/12/2012
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Ma’aleh Adumim mayor hopeful over E1 expansionTOVAH LAZAROFF - Jerusalem Post "Ma’aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel was hopeful Saturday night that after 18 years the Israeli government might be finally ready to authorize construction in an area of his West Bank city, known as E1." ca7/12/2012
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Accelerating the Occupation : Implementing Israel’s Settlement PolicyBinoy Kampmark - Dissident Voice - The plans for constructing settlements on E1, a policy that will connect Jerusalem with Maaleh Adumim, would effectively divide the northern and western West Bank. Should that occur, a contiguous Palestinian state would be dealt a blow even before its formal creation.-rh 5/12/2012
Mr. Netanyahu’s Strategic MistakeNew York Times - Editorial - The plan to develop E1 is particularly disturbing because the Obama administration, like others before it, have considered expansion there fatal to a two-state solution. Mr. Netanyahu is up for re-election in January, so he may be driven by his political needs. But that is no excuse.-rh 5/12/2012
For first time, Britain, France may recall ambassadors to protest Israel`s settlement constructionBarak Ravid - Haaretz - Moves against Israel will be made in next the few days following Netanyahu’s decision to move ahead on planning in E1 and build 3,000 housing units in the settlement blocs, and in East Jerusalem, say senior European diplomats3/12/2012
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Settler tunnel to be dug at Silwan, East Jerusalem Occupied Palestine - Inhabitants of Wadi Hilweh Neighborhood at Silwan, East Jerusalem were informed by the Jerusalem Development Company “Moriah” that a tunnel would be dug under their main street in order to build a tunnel for pedestrians - for the use of the Ir David settlers and their tourist project. ak4/12/2012
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Resource: What is the E1 area, and why is it so important?Ir Amim - +972 - In response to the Palestinian statehood bid, the Israeli government has decided to promote zoning plans for the area known as E1, northeast of Jerusalem. The project is intended to link annexed East Jerusalem with the mega-settlement of Ma’aleh Adumin, thus finally making the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State impossible3/12/2012
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Barak authorizes creation of a university at the settlement of Ariel Yonah Jeremy Bob, Yoni Dayan, Tovah Lazaroff - Jerusalem Post - Defense Minister Barak, whose carrer seems near its end, issues the directive for the college at the West Bank settlement of Ariel to be upgraded to full university status. The move, highly controversial and contested on academic as well as political grounds, seems part of the Netayahu government`s efforts to stop voters from going over to Naftali Bennet`s extreme right "Jewish Home Party". Approval of the Ariel University is still pending the Supreme Court`s ruling in the appela lodged by Israel`s existing universities. 25/12/2012
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1,200 further settlement housing units approved Melanie Lidman - Jerusalem Post - In the latest of the Netanyahu Government`s building spree beyond the 1967 borders, a planning committee approved 1,200 housing units in Gilo - considered by the government to be a "Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem" but internationally regarded as a settlement in Occupied Territory. Unlike other recent building plans, which aroused an international furore but need further stages of approval before construction could begin, the Gilo approval is final and construction could begin within months.25/12/2012
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A harsh blow to academiaEditorial - Haaretz - "The directive`s motives are political, not professional, and certainly not for the good of the country." - id26/12/2012
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