Showing posts with label west bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west bank. Show all posts
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Just as the broader Arab world is in the midst of an extraordinary time of transition, Palestinians living under occupation sense that the techtonic plates of history are moving. Adam Shatz offers thoughtful essay about the shifts in strategy and practice that he encountered in a recent visit to the West Bank.

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Shatz discovers pockets of creative thinking, and quite a lot of skepticism about the two-state mantra even as the PA aims to gain United Na...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Israel's colonization of occupied territory: You say illegal, I say illegitimate, let's call the whole thing off

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http://pfcmc.com/News/Press/docs/2011/sc10178.doc.htm Headline USA Today: "Clinton says Israeli settlements are illegitimate, not il...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Still a con--Barak may offer 3 month "freeze"

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3 month freeze would exempt 2,000 buildings: " Yediot Acharonot correspondent Shimon Schiffer reports, in the name of government source...
Monday, May 25, 2009

How serious is Obama about freezing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank?

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As the linked article explains, freezing settlement growth will require much more than identifying violations of Israeli commitments or gaps...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Illegal Israeli settlements: Important secret report leaked to Haaretz

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Introduction: "Just four years ago, the defense establishment decided to carry out a seemingly elementary task: establish a comprehensi...
Monday, January 26, 2009

60 Minutes

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This is a sober, thoughtful and informed segment on the fading prospects for a two-state between Israel and Palestine.  The report puts the...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Olmert states more clearly than ever that the colonization of the West Bank must end for the sake of peace, and he is right

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Olmert says Israel must withdraw from West Bank for peace - Los Angeles Times Settlers prepare to resist and attack . Gershom Gorenberg is ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Rice on her seventh pathetic trip since November 2007 to Israel-Palestine

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Quite aside from the fact that Israeli politics is obviously absorbed with life after Ehud Olmert, the Secretary of State's tepid critic...
Friday, April 25, 2008

What did Bush promise Israel in 2005? Or did he?

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Friday, March 10, 2006

The illegal settlements in the West Bank

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Not since George Bush Sr. has a U.S. president alluded to the illegality of Israel's colonization of the West Bank under easily understo...
Friday, March 25, 2005

U.S. rolls over again on Israeli settlements

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