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Key West Bank Settlement Outpost Slated for Evacuation
Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered Israeli settlers in the Migron settlement outpost in the West Bank to leave by 31 March in response to a 2006 petition filed by seven Palestinian landowners and Israeli pressure group Peace Now. How People...
Israel’s Supreme Court is Set to Hear Arguments From Israelis Opposed to a Prisoner Exchange
Israel’s Supreme Court is set to hear arguments from Israelis opposed to a proposed exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has Criticized U.S. Lawmakers for Suspending $200m in Aid for Palestinian Territories
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has criticized U.S. lawmakers for suspending $200 million in aid slated to fund development projects in the Palestinian territories.
Educated for War?
The most striking sentence in Patricia Storace’s review of David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land for the October 13 issue of The New York Review of Books and now available for all to read online comes at the very end of her analysis: Yet...
Portugal And the United States Criticize Israeli Settlement Plan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Portas Tuesday criticized Israel’s announced intention to build 1100 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem. The United States and Portugal are pushing an international plan...
Security Council to Convene in a Formal Meeting Wednesday to Consider Palestine’s Application for Membership
The U.N. Security Council on Monday took up the issue of the Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership. The meeting was mostly procedural and that the council is expected to meet again on the subject later this week.
South Africa has Given Its Support to the Palestinian Bid for Full Membership in the United Nations
South Africa has given its support to the Palestinian bid for full membership in the world body, the United Nations, with President Jacob Zuma urging all member states to vote ‘yes’.
United States Looking to Stop Any And All Funding to Palestine If Statehood is Pursued
A key committee of the House of Representatives held a hearing on Wednesday to reexamine U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority, if it goes ahead with plans to submit an application to the United Nations for full membership as a state. Envoys for the United...
