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In Murders' Wake, Israel OKs New Settlements

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:39:42 CDT

A mere day after an Israeli family of five was massacred while they slept , the AP reports that Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The homes will be built in a part of the West Bank that Israel expects to hold onto...

Israeli Settlers Defy Demolition, Blame Obama

Jason Farago — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:32:06 CDT

Jewish settlers whose tiny outpost in the West Bank was demolished by the Israeli army—just days after Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington—returned hours later and started rebuilding, reports the Times of London. Netanyahu reportedly agreed to Barack Obama's demands to dismantle illegal outposts in the Palestinian territories, but...

Soldiers Drag Jewish Settlers From Disputed Hebron Building

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:54:46 CST

Dozens of masked Jewish settlers vandalized a Palestinian house in Hebron today, just after Israeli soldiers dragged 250 Jewish settlers out of another disputed building, Haaretz reports. The move against the settlers was the first forced eviction in the West Bank in two years. Twenty-five people were injured in the...

Radical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel

Jason Farago — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:17:25 CDT

A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist advocacy group. The attack is the latest sign that right-wing settlers are resorting to extremist tactics to...

Mideast Strife Spills Onto Facebook

Rob Quinn — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:37:00 CDT

Facebook has now had to take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Guardian reports, on account of its standard IDing of members by country. Jewish settlers in the West Bank were fuming when the site told them they lived in Palestine; Palestinians in East Jerusalem in turn protested that their turf...

Peace Talks Snag on Jerusalem

Peter Fearon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:14:00 CST

Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians were set to resume today as leaders were already entangled in a first major clash: over whether or not they agreed that Jerusalem would be part of the discussion. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has claimed the Palestinians agreed to put off discussing Jerusalem....