Posts Tagged: Israel Settlements
Israel Plans Thousands of New West Bank Homes as US Voices Readiness to Back Annexation
Israel announced a plan for thousands of new homes in the West Bank on Wednesday as Washington voiced readiness to back de facto Israeli annexations there. US...
Arab Foreign Ministers Condemn Israeli Plan to Annex Parts of West Bank
Arab countries on Thursday condemned Israel's plan to de facto annex parts of the West Bank as a "new war crime" against Palestinians, the Arab League...
The Consequences of Territorial Annexation
The formation of an Israeli coalition government led by Bibi Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, the leaders of Likud and Blue and White, respectively, will finally...
Israel Should Make Decisions for Itself
JNS.org - In principle, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. The agreement signed by...
UN Human Rights Council Sinks to New Low With BDS-Inspired Blacklist
JNS.org - The stench of antisemitism always hovers over Switzerland’s Lake Geneva when the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is meeting there. The foul...
Turning Human Rights Into a Joke
JNS.org - If you want to understand just how outrageous the UN blacklist of businesses operating in Israeli “settlements” really is, forget for a moment about...
How the UN Blacklist Belittles Palestinians
While the Hollywood blacklisting of the mid-20th century claimed innocent victims, it’s undeniable that the problem of communist infiltration into US society, including the motion...
New US Policy on Settlements Won’t Worsen Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - The letter from 107 Democratic members of Congress declaring that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and much of Jerusalem, are illegal is...
Israeli Settlements and Peace
Good news. Bad news. The US has declared that settlements in the West Bank are not illegal according to international law, despite nearly everyone else claiming...
Israel in the West Bank Advances US Interests
The US position on the future of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be based on US interests in the context of a violent,...
Trump and the ‘Settlements’: A Preliminary Analysis
The Trump administration’s repudiation of established Obama-era policies that considered Israeli communities across the 1949 Armistice Line (the “Green Line”) “inconsistent with international law” has...
US Recognizes Settlement Truth
The United States has finally come to the legal and practical conclusion that “The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not...
Political Advocacy Journalism Distorts Coverage of US Policy on Settlements
The gold standard for journalists, at one time, was to fulfil the role of diligent truth-seeker who thoroughly and independently gathered news and reported objectively...
UN Expert on Palestinian Territories Calls for Ban on ‘Illegal Settlement’ Products
JNS.org - Canadian law professor and UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk on Wednesday called for an international ban on Israel’s “illegal...
