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1Israel begins new settlement, despite U.S. opposition - Haaretz - Israel News 2 Citations Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.
The move comes on the eve of Netanyahu's first meeting with Obama, despite Western calls for Israel to halt its settlement activity.
Tenders have been issued for 20 housing units in the new Maskiot settlement and contractors have arrived on site to begin foundation work., delicious.comNice how Israel is still trying to take land that isn't theirs. Even the *Bush* administration knew to tell them not to do this. Will Obama stand up to Israel as much as Bush did? (which is to say, not very much at all -- they've gone tons of nukes even though we're not supposed to acknowledge that fact because then our aid to them would become illegal.) Taking land from indigenous people is never right. Continuing to do so after 40+ yrs of violation of international law is even less right., delicious.com
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1 Citation talking with some disdain about the holocaust "industry". The sunlight is filtered through the roof of palm leaves, the decorative strings of apples, coloured balls and paper streamers almost motionless on this still October morning. Nearby the autumn desert flowers are blooming and a ladder up against a tree indicates that someone has recently been picking olives. Here in Nataf, the select, upper-middle-class community idyllically set in the Jerusalem Hills where Burg lives with his wife Yael, just 1,000 metres from the border with the West Bank, it's momentarily hard to focus on the sombre subject matter of his latest, explosive book, one which by his own ? if anything understated ? account "singlehandedly shook the foundations of the Zionist establishment overnight". It isn't long since Burg was a blue-chip member of that same Zionist establishment. The son of a long-serving government minister, from the time of David Ben-Gurion's government, he has a classic, delicious.com
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Peace Now to Pay and Apologize for Maligning Town 1 Citation
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Three Days in the West Bank | The Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) 1 Citation Nirit Ben-Ari of the CUNY Graduate Center spends three days with Peace Now and others in the West Bank, visiting Hebron especially. Another good first-timer summary of the issues faced by settler activity and aggression., delicious.com
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1 Citation The words ?Jewish? and ?terrorist? are not easily uttered together by Israelis. But just occasionally, such as last week when one of the country?s leading intellectuals was injured by a pipe bomb placed at the front door of his home, they find themselves with little choice. The target of the attack was 73-year-old Zeev Sternhell, a politics professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specialising in European fascism and a prominent supporter of the left-wing group Peace Now. Shortly after the explosion, police found pamphlets nearby offering 1.1 million shekels ($300,000) to anyone assassinating a Peace Now leader. The movement?s most visible activity has been tracking and criticising the growth of the settlements in the West Bank., delicious.com
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1 Citation Jewish settlers clashed with activists of the Rabbis for Human Rights movement near the West Bank city of Hebron as they protected Palestinians beginning the annual olive harvest.
Israeli police and soldiers grappled with settlers who tried to drive off local Palestinians and international supporters of Palestinian rights in the West Bank.
"This is just the beginning of the olive harvest which will be going on for the next two months," said the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, Arik Ascherman. He said activists were going to 40 Palestinian villages to protect olive growers and uphold their right to work the land, and harvest.
They would act "as human shields" if necessary. A settler woman screamed "Murderer, murderer" at the rabbi, and settlers angrily shouted down any activists trying to explain their aims to TV reporters., delicious.com
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Meretz leader to Haaretz: Two-state solution on last legs. 1 Citation A few days after Sari Nusseibeh retracted his position on two states, I went into Olmert's office and told him that he should take the report of Nusseibeh's comment like he would take the news that an Arab state has a nuclear bomb.
For decades I have fought for peace. In Peace Now, in Mapai and in Meretz. The two-state solution is the only solution. And I live in fear today. I see the light fading. Why did my parents come here? To what have I devoted my life? For what am I here?
For a Jewish and democratic state. And if there is no Jewish and democratic state, what am I left with?
If the situation is so dramatic, maybe it's better not to vote for a small party like Meretz. Not true.
There is no one else like Meretz now. We are the only leftist Zionist alternative that believes in peace, human rights and social democracy.
Some say Amos Oz has become your guru. You are the Eli Yishai of Meretz and Oz is your Rabbi Ovadia Yosef., delicious.com
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1 Citation Private organizations in the US continue to raise tax-exempt contributions for the very activities that the government opposes
There's nothing illegal about the charitable contributions to pro-settlement organizations, which are documented in filings with the IRS
They're similar to tax-exempt donations made to thousands of foreign organizations around the world through groups that are often described as "American friends of . . . " the recipient.
Critics of Israeli settlements question why American taxpayers are supporting indirectly, through the exempt contributions, a process that the government condemns.
A search of IRS records identified 28 US charitable groups that made a total of $33.4 million in tax-exempt contributions to settlements and related organizations between 2004 and 2007.
"This is an issue that has not gotten the attention it deserves," said Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now, a lobbying group that opposes settlements., delicious.com
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Nearly half Israeli outpost land is Palestinian - Yahoo! News 1 Citation Nearly half of the land occupied by Israeli settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank is private Palestinian property, a watchdog group said on Sunday.
46% of the land where the wildcat settlements were built belong to private Palestinian owners, Peace Now said.
The vast majority of the outposts -- 80 of the more than 100 in the territory -- were either partially or wholly built on private Palestinian land without authorisation of the owners, it said. "Defence Minister Ehud Barak said recently that he wanted to dismantle the outposts built on private Palestinian land -- he is going to have lots of work in the coming weeks and months,"
Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer told army radio. A senior settler official, Danny Dayan, rejected the report, saying that "not a single Arab has been harmed" by settlement activities., delicious.com
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1 Citation One of my new themes on this site is that the Israel lobby as we know it is over. Gaza and Netanyahu shattered it. Obama gave his speech in Cairo because he knew he would have political cover from American Jews to reach out to the Muslim world. Marty Peretz and Charles Krauthammer didn't like the speech, but Jeffrey Goldberg and Roger Cohen (and Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod) did. That's the ballgame.
This morning Ori Nir of Peace Now provides powerful evidence for my theory from a still-secret poll that says that women and Democrats are defecting:, delicious.com
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