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Unauthorized Israeli Settlement Looks to Expand
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsAVIGAYIL, West Bank (March 13) -- As Maor Wiener tells the story, the settlement of Avigayil started in 2001 when the head of the regional council pointed to the top of the hill south of Mount Hebron and suggested it would be a good strategic location. Today, some eight years later, the settlement in the southern part of the contested West Bank is little more than a ramshackle collection of trailers and modular housing on what is officially known as Hilltop 850. But its presence is a reminder of Israel's continuing refusal to scale back settlements it acknowledges are unauthorized -- and its ...
Israel Under Fire for Pushing Arabs Out of East Jerusalem
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Dec. 2) - East Jerusalem, at the crux of the conflict between Jews and Palestinians for more than 40 years, is more contested than ever this week in light of several reports that suggest Israel is pursuing a deliberate policy of "judaizing" the city Palestinians view as their future capital. A classified European Union report, leaked to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, slams Israeli policy in East Jerusalem and calls on EU countries to help strengthen Palestinian claims to the city. The Israeli government is particularly concerned at indications that the EU may soon officially ...
Settlement Freeze Could Ease Mideast Standoff
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Nov. 25) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank on Wednesday, saying he wanted to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians. While the deal may ease delicate negotiations over a long-sought prisoner exchange, Palestinian officials responded that any freeze that does not include Jerusalem is meaningless. "This is not an easy step, and it is painful," Netanyahu said of the freeze during a prime-time televised news conference. "We are taking it in order to encourage the resumption of ...
White House 'Dismayed' by Israeli Plans to Expand Jerusalem Settlement
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Obama administration said Tuesday that it was "dismayed" with Israel's plans to allow 900 housing units to be built in Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem considered a settlement by the United Nations, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The units, which would attempt to attract wealthy residents, will be built across the "Green Line," a 1949 armistice border drawn around the edge of Jerusalem after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. "At a time when we are working to re-launch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said ...
Palestinian Power Vacuum Unsettles Mideast Peace Process
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- As Israel's most preferred Palestinian leader threatens to throw in the towel in frustration over the ongoing impasse on peace negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held unusually low-key talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday night, then canceled a scheduled press conference on Tuesday morning before flying off to what promises to be an equally terse meeting with French officials in Paris. The meeting in Washington came as concerns deepened over Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' declared intention to not seek re-election in scheduled elections ...
Bush Predicts Peace Deal Will Be Reached
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySpeaking from Ramallah, on the West Bank, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his side, President Bush confidently predicted that a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israelis would be signed by the end of his presidency. The president made the comments after a meeting with Abbas on the second day of his trip to the Middle East. The trip is intended to jump start the peace process and build momentum toward an agreement on final status issues that have long prevented the creation of a Palestinian state.As he did after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, the president ...
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