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Israel Panel Approving New East Jerusalem Building
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Jerusalem officials on Monday gave preliminary approval for the building of 942 new apartments in a Jewish development in the city's contested eastern sector, threatening to create new friction ahead of the Israeli president's White House visit. Although it would take years before construction starts, the project in the neighborhood of Gilo will likely infuriate the Palestinians at an especially delicate diplomatic moment. Israeli President Shimon Peres is scheduled to meet Tuesday with President Barack Obama to explore ways to jump-start stalled Israeli-Palestinian ...
US Vetoes UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
By not in system - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution Friday that would have condemned Israeli settlements as "illegal" and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. The 14 other Security Council members voted in favor of the resolution. The Obama administration's veto is certain to anger Arab countries and Palestinian supporters around the world. An abstention would have angered the Israelis, the closest U.S. ally in the region, as well as Democratic and Republican supporters of Israel in the U.S. Congress. The U.S. opposes new settlements but says taking the ...
Palestinians Angry About Leaks Attack Al-Jazeera HQ
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Palestinians supporting President Mahmoud Abbas smashed windows and sprayed graffiti outside the West Bank headquarters of Al-Jazeera today, angry that it published documents that apparently showed Palestinian officials had agreed to Israeli sovereignty over nearly all Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. About 250 protesters gathered outside the Pan-Arab TV channel office in Ramallah, and a few sprayed graffiti saying "Al-Jazeera are spies" and "Al-Jazeera equals Israel." A few of the protesters then broke security cameras and windows. Amr Nabil, AP According to ...
Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL NewsIt's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a series of maps showing detailed options for removing most of the West Bank from Israeli occupation. While Robert Satloff, the think tank's executive director, and David Makovsky, the author of the study, said they were not endorsing any one ...
Jerusalem Hotel Demolished for Israeli Apartments
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israeli bulldozers demolished a vacant hotel in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Sunday, clearing the way for a new Jewish housing development that has drawn heavy Palestinian and American condemnations. The planned construction, combined with a flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence, bodes poorly for a new U.S. attempt to restart peace talks later this week. The Palestinians accused Israel of "playing with fire" and undermining peace efforts. The dispute over east Jerusalem is the most explosive issue in Israeli-Palestinian peace making. The conflicting claims to the ...
Clinton-Netanyahu Meeting Produces No Breakthrough
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Nov. 11) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held lengthy talks here Thursday but failed to break an impasse that has stalled Middle East peace negotiations. After multiple meetings over seven hours, some one-on-one and others with aides, Clinton and Netanyahu said in a joint statement that they had a "a friendly and productive exchange of views on both sides" and "agreed on the importance of continuing direct negotiations to achieve our goals." But there was no sign that the talks, which have been on hold since mid-September ...
Mideast Impasse Eclipses Obama's Indonesia Trip
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Nov. 9) -- Chagrin at the Mideast peace process overshadowed joy at President Barack Obama's return to Indonesia, when a trip aimed in part at highlighting U.S. engagement with the Muslim world became a forum for criticizing Israeli construction plans for disputed East Jerusalem. At an appearance today with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Obama described Israel's formal notice to build some 1,300 housing units in neighborhoods claimed by Palestinians as the latest in a series of "incremental steps [that] can end up breaking down trust between the parties." "This kind of ...
As Netanyahu Heads to US, Israel Keeps Building
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
JERUSALEM (Nov. 5) -- A page of gray, text-heavy official announcements published in an Israeli newspaper could torpedo President Barack Obama's strategy for the renewal of Middle East peace talks. The announcements came on the eve of a crucial visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S., where he will meet with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while Obama is traveling in Asia. In the Hebrew daily Maariv, the Israel Lands Administration detailed tenders inviting contractors to bid for the construction of 238 new homes in two Israeli ...
Can Housing Keep Christians in Middle East?
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
JERUSALEM (Nov. 1) -- Only days after a special Vatican Synod on the Middle East ended a week of deliberation about the rapidly shrinking Christian communities in the Arab world and Israel, Christians faced a massacre in Baghdad and renewed troubles in Jerusalem. Fifty-eight people including a priest were reported dead Sunday after Iraqi troops stormed the Catholic Sayidat al-Najat church in Baghdad where gunmen linked with al-Qaida had taken dozens of hostages and begun killing them. It was just the latest bout of the anti-Christian violence that has sparked a massive wave of emigration from ...
Israeli Settlement Freeze Ends; Peace Hopes in Doubt
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
KIRYAT NETAFIM, West Bank (Sept. 26) -- A pregnant Israeli woman gave birth Sunday night soon after she was wounded in a gun attack on two Israeli cars driving through the West Bank. The shooting incident underscored the knife-edge atmosphere as Israel marked the end of a 10-month moratorium on West Bank settlement construction that the Palestinians say must continue if peace talks are to make any progress. Four Israelis were gunned down in the same area of the southern West Bank on Aug. 31, and there have been several days of rioting in Jerusalem after an Israeli security guard shot dead a ...
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