Posts Tagged: Israel West bank
Israel to Partially Adopt Report Asserting Legal Right to West Bank Jewish Settlement
JTA - Israel is adopting certain recommendations of a report that claims Israel is not occupying the West Bank. The government-commissioned Report on the Legal Status of...
Israel Destroys Settlement Structures in West Bank Outpost
Jerusalem Post - Security forces were demolishing a number of illegal structures in the West Bank outpost of Ma'aleh Rehavam on Wednesday in accordance with...
EU Urges Israelis and Palestinian Authority to Restart Peace Talks
JNS.org - The European Union urged Israelis and Palestinians to restart peace talks. "The EU urges the parties to use the coming weeks to find...
The ‘Peace Process’ Unravels Yet Again
The Obama Administration's Mideast peace-making whirlwind appears to be headed towards an early demise. The immediate focus of the parties' mutual recriminations center on the...
Israeli Plans for 2,000 New Homes in Judea and Samaria Move Forward
AFP - Israel has progressed with plans for more than 2,000 new homes in six West Bank settlements, an official said Thursday, in a move likely...
Peace Group Estimates Removing Jews From West Bank Could Cost $10 Billion
Sydney Morning Herald - Tel Aviv: Paying Israel's settlers in the occupied West Bank to give up their homes for a future Palestinian state would...
What ‘Occupation’ Means Depends on Who Is Speaking”Ž
All our holy places are still under occupation, and so far we have not liberated one inch of Palestinian land. All Palestinian land is...
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop May be Right on the Legality of Settlements
Julie Bishop had some sensible things to say in Jerusalem, as she broke ranks from a cosy, normally unexamined international consensus: the idea that, by...
Official: Under Peace Deal, Netanyahu Would Let Settlers Remain in West Bank
Times of Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to uproot Jewish settlements anywhere in the West Bank, and will not force any...
If Jesus Was a Jew, How Can the West Bank be Occupied?
Christians worldwide celebrate the birth of Jesus - the birth of a Jewish baby to a Jewish family living in Bethlehem. This man (Yeshu...
The Legal Case for Judea and Samria
JNS.org - If international legitimacy for the settlement enterprise were a horse, one could say that it's been long out of the barn. Those...
UK’s Times Publishes Op-Ed Saying Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Children With Relative Impunity
A British lawyer named Roy Amlot wrote an op-ed for The Times, 'West Bank: justice in the military courts', November 14, recounting his recent experiences visiting the...
A Tale of Two Christians in the Holy Land
In early April of 2013, I visited the town of Eilat in southern Israel. I stayed at a field school belonging to the Society for the...
We Have Peace – Don’t Ruin it With a Peace Plan
Today, the Israeli-Arab conflict is the least violent it has ever been. This year, only one Israeli has been killed in a terror attack. Less than...
