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Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while driving a D9 to demolish a Palestinian home in Gaza in 2003. Her family is suing Israel, and Corrie has become an iconic figure in pro-Palestinian circles. (One of the boats in the aid flotilla bound for Gaza that Israeli troops stormed this summer, killing nine, was named for ...
Mosque Fire Increases Israeli Settlement Tension
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that burning Islamic holy artifacts is not a good idea. Who didn't get the memo? Israeli settlers, who set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, on Monday before morning prayers, reports Al-Jazeera. The attack comes at a delicate time during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, with reports surfacing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed in principle to a 60-day freeze on new settlement construction. (As Surge Desk earlier pointed out, illegal settlement construction often ...
Opinion: Why Should Hebron Settlements Scuttle Peace Talks?
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach - AOL News
HEBRON, West Bank (Sept. 29) -- Israel is a magical country, but to experience one of its greatest wonders you have to travel out to what the world calls the West Bank and the Bible calls Judea and Samaria. There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and matriarchs are buried. Many Jewish and Christian tourists to Israel skip Hebron, thinking it's too dangerous, and indeed four Israelis, including a pregnant woman, were killed there just two weeks ago, with another two shot this week. But terrorists dare not determine whether ...
Palestinians Blink in Settlement Poker Match
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have emerged victorious -- for now -- after a tense weekend of brinkmanship over West Bank settlement building that wrong-footed the Obama administration, divided the Palestinian leadership and perhaps humiliated both of them. Netanyahu's refusal to heed President Barack Obama's plea at the United Nations on Friday to extend a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement building was a snub to the U.S. president and created major complications for the Palestinians. Ariel Schalit, AP The expiration of an Israeli ...
Netanyahu Willing to Trade Settlement Freeze for Famed Spy's Freedom
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 21) -- It's called chutzpah: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a deal to Washington. He'll extend a freeze on settlement expansion in the occupied territories -- settlements that are illegal under international law -- in exchange for Jonathan Pollard, an American who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. for spying for Israel. Israel's army radio said that "Netanyahu had asked an unnamed intermediary to sound out the Obama administration on the proposal, but it is not known what response was received," Haaretz reports. Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst, ...
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Begin as Both Sides Lay Out Hopes, Expectations
By Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily"Joined by the generations, those who have gone before, and those who will follow," President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened formal peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians today. The imagery has certainly been impressive. Yesterday it was President Obama, flanked by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on one side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the other striding purposefully, if not altogether confidently, into a working dinner. This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the lead, seated between the pair. An American flag with ...
Key Issue in Mideast Talks: How Do You Define 'Settlement'?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 1) -- Neighborhoods. Colonies. Facts on the ground. Suburbs. Unauthorized outposts. Jerusalem. Whatever you call Jewish areas outside of Israel's 1967 border, the peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that opened today at the White House will have to confront what to do with a half-million Israelis living in disputed territory that Palestinians want for their new state. There are other intractable core issues, such as refugees and security, that must be worked out before a peace deal can be signed. But the ...
Netanyahu's Chummy Obama Visit Skirted Unresolved Issues
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyDespite the theater of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's feel-good reception with President Barack Obama on Tuesday -- the meeting of the wives, the walk down the White House driveway together, like old friends, after months of differences -- let no one think the path forward will be smooth from here on out. Starting today. Already the White House has none-too-subtly said that Obama's promise to come to Israel was nothing more than the sort of throw-away niceties one gives a guest who's just spent a reasonably nice time having dinner at your home. Already no one quite believes ...
In Israel, Biden Condemns East Jerusalem Settlements
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVice President Joe Biden released a statement shortly after arriving in Israel Tuesday that condemns a decision by the government to allow new settlements in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel's announcement of the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in east Jerusalem came just hours after Biden met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions that ...
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 ...
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