Settlements
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Title | | Description | Date |
Settlements: The Real Story | | Gershom Gorenberg - Portside - The distinction between religious
settlements and settlement blocs, then, repeats the error built into
the Israeli political debate during the first years of the occupation.
Back then, the self-deception was that Allon Plan settlements posed no
impediment to peace. Jordan would just have to accept that Israel
would keep parts of the West Bank. Now the myth is that Israel will be
able to keep the blocs—which means annexing pieces of land outside its
pre-1967 borders. In reality, no one knows which settlements, if any,
Israel would be able to retain under a peace agreement. Judging from
the brief periods of serious final-status talks over the years, the
baseline for new Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will be the Green
Line. Negotiations could lead to small exchanges, with Israel giving
up bits of its pre-1967 territory in return for equal-sized bits of
the West Bank. But even if that happens, the amount of land involved,
and the number of settlements saved, is certain to fall far short of
the expectations created by the talk of keeping the settlement blocs.-
rh | 28/6/2017 |
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Claims of Israeli settlement freeze an `attempt to fool the public` | | Ma’an News Agency - “Hagit Ofran, the spokesperson for the settlement watch
team of the Israeli NGO Peace Now, told Ma’an that ‘The alleged promise by
Netanyahu, if it truly happened, is another spin of the Netanyahu government
trying to fool the public.’ Pointing to information gathered by Peace Now from
the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), Ofran highlighted that this year,
the Israeli government had already issued tenders for the construction of 2,858
settlement units in the West Bank” [ry] | 26/6/2017 |
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After Abbas and Kushner Meet, Palestinians Disappointed With Trump Over Settlements | | Jack Khoury -
Haaretz
"President Trump spoke about establishing a joint committee of five
[representatives from each side] and we want to make progress on it.
But first of all we need to understand from the administration what
is its position concerning the issue of the settlements, if they see
the settlements as the main and most serious obstacle to progress in
any negotiations, so there is a serious problem making progress,"
said the senior Palestinian official." ca | 23/6/2017 |
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I’m a 90-year-old woman who has lived in Israel for 50 years – here is what I think about Israeli settlements | | Ruth Kedar - Independent - Since I witnessed its beginnings half a
century ago, the occupation has only got worse. The size and scale of
settlements is something I can’t get over. I know every little road
and every little village of the West Bank and it is frightening to see
them swallowed up piece by piece by indistinguishable rows of red
roofs that multiply across Palestinian land. It is robbery that is
devoid of shame.-rh
| 21/6/2017 |
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Netanyahu vows to occupy the West Bank forever | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man -
+972 -
"If Israel is not willing to relinquish military control over the West Bank, then it is saying that there can be no two-state solution." - id
| 14/6/2017 |
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Lieberman: Israel Plans Most Settlement Homes Since 1992 | | Jason Ditz - AntiWar - Expresses Annoyance at Settlers` Demands for More [ry] | 12/6/2017 |
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Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Protest In Kufur Qaddoum | | IMEMC News -
"Morad Eshteiwy, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee
against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, said the
soldiers fired many gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets at
the nonviolent protesters. He added that the Israeli attack did not
lead to injuries or any arrests.For the past fourteen years, Kufur
Qaddoum residents have been protesting, demanding the army to reopen
the main town’s road, which was blockaded to enable easy access to
the illegal colonist Israeli settlers, driving to and from Kedumim
colony, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands." ca
| 10/6/2017 |
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PA slams new settlement as effort to thwart Trump’s peace drive | | Dov Lieber - Times of Israel - Abbas’s spokesperson says it’s no coincidence that ground is broken on the eve of a visit to the region by Jared Kushner. [bz] | 21/6/2017 |
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Settlers pressure Netanyahu to reject Palestinian building plan | | Mazal Mualem - Al-Monitor - In Liberman’s plan, Palestinian towns were grouped into two categories: those included on the “red list,” from which terrorist attacks emerged; and a “green list” of 15 cities and villages from which terrorists hadn’t come. Liberman allotted benefits for those towns on the green list, which included the expansion of their master plan. The city of Qalqilya was one of them. [bz]
| 21/6/2017 |
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