Posts Tagged: settlements
The Next Crisis? United States Might Limit Aid to Israel by Amount it Spends on Settlements
The State Department might be attempting to limit the loan guarantees Israel receives from the United States, based on Israel's expenditures on West Bank settlements,...
Words Matter: How Vocabulary Defines the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - Settlements or Jewish communities? West Bank or Judea and Samaria? East Jerusalem or eastern Jerusalem? Those are some of the language choices that...
Israel Land Authority Planning Thousands of Homes Across Green Line
The Israel Land Authority has decided to finance the planning of tens of thousands of housing units in the West Bank, Globes reported Tuesday. The website...
Israeli President Peres: ‘We Are Fortunate that America Was, and Remains, Our Friend and Ally’
Israeli President Shimon Peres attempted to throw water on the fire that is the tense relationship between Israel and Washington in recent weeks. Speaking at the...
Rice Critical of Israel’s Settlement Plans
JPost - US President Barack Obama's top national security aide on Thursday blamed Israeli settlement expansion announcements for some of the latest tensions...
Report: Leaked Peace Talks Guidelines Call for International Status for Jerusalem
A Palestinian newspaper published a document Tuesday it claimed to be Palestinian Authority guidelines for the upcoming peace talks with Israel. Published by Palestine Today, an organ...
John Kerry: PM Netanyahu Informed US and PA About New Settlement Plans
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday while in Brazil that both he and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas knew in advance about...
PM Netanyahu Slams PA in Letter to John Kerry: ‘Incitement and Peace Don’t Go Together’
JNS.org - "Incitement and peace cannot coexist," wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday night,...
Israel Housing Minister Ariel Announces 800 New Homes in Jerusalem, 400 in Ariel, Efrat, Ma’ale Adumim and Beitar Illit
JNS.org - Ahead of the scheduled resumption of Israeli-Palestinian conflict talks in Jerusalem this week, the Israeli Housing and Construction Ministry issued tenders on Sunday...
Report: Israel Will Continue to Build Settlements – Negotiation Source
Israeli and Palestinian Authority negotiators engaged in the current round of peace talks have come to the understanding that Israel will continue to build...
Report: PM Netanyahu Promised More Settler Housing in Exchange for Support of Prisoner Release Plan
Times of Israel - In a deal to temper Jewish Home's resistance to the release of over a hundred long-time Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Benjamin...
Germany Tacitly Approves Labeling Jewish Goods from Judea, Samaria
Jerusalem Post - The German government has given its tacit approval of European Union efforts to label products manufactured in Israeli-controlled territory beyond...
Jewish Population in Judea and Samaria On the Rise
An examination of statistics presented by the Minister of the Interior and the authorities in Judea and Samaria indicates that there has been a 0.5%...
Israel Will Not Allow UN Mission to Enter West Bank
Israel is taking its decision to break ties with the UN Human Rights Council a step further. A UN team working on behalf of the council...
