Settlements

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  Settlement Agreements Are Safe Havens?
  Are settlement agreements the new save haven for bad medical equipment?
  by breetreport / on Nov 8, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Settlements”

• Nothing to see here, colonies will continue to expand

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 135
  The world’s media is talking about Israel’s “settlement freeze” in the West Bank. It’s all a sham, of course , designed to convince the US-backed Palestinian Authority to return to the table and endlessly discuss negotiations and please Washington. And the occupation will only deepen. This little grab in ...
  7 hours ago

• Help save the Palestinian village of Lifta from total destruction

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 137
  Lifta, a most picturesque Palestinian village, lies on the slopes of West Jerusalem below the highway linking it to Tel-Aviv. It has been abandoned since the invading Hagana underground forces backed by the Stern Gang drove the last of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948 during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It ...
  7 hours ago

• Palestinians Appeal to U.S. to Put Pressure on Israel

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians appealed to the United States on Thursday to raise pressure on Israel, saying an Israeli plan to halt new construction in the West Bank was insincere. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top presidential adviser, said he hopes U.S. envoy George Mitchell can bring about what he called "a ...
  8 hours ago

• Palestinians don’t miss another opportunity to miss an opportunity

  
  Ray Cook — Authority: 112
  As Abba Eban, the distinguished Israeli diplomat, politician and writer, once said of the Arabs but true of today’s Palestinians, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. As I reported yesterday , Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu proposed and has now had approved a 10 month moratorium on ...
  15 hours ago

• Israel Freezes Settlements, Waits for Response

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 181
  Israels foreign minister said Thursday it is up to the Palestinians to decide whether to resume Mideast peace talks now that Israel has announced a settlement freeze. (Nov. 26)
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• Obama prevailed upon Israel

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 443
  Palestinians, predictably, rejected Netanyahu’s partial freeze on settlement construction. The issue has been insignificant for them in the first place, but continued construction in East Jerusalem made all the more irrelevant. Netanyahu’s insisted on East jerusalem construction to torpedo peace talks. Everyone ...
  17 hours ago

• ‘Settlement freeze’ won’t bring about peace

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 505
  Akiva Eldar | Haaretz h 25 November 2009 Newspaper headlines across the world this morning will trumpet the courageous and unprecedented initiative of Israel’s prime minister. Who could have imagined that the right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the settler Avigdor Lieberman would lend a hand to freezing ...
  21 hours ago

• An Overview of Unconventional Monetary Policies

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 496
  The excellent research edifice at the Bank of International Settlements have conjured up one of those papers which needed to be written (by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat) on the back of the myriad of different monetary policy responses we have observed in the contex of the economic crisis. The abstract and ...
  22 hours ago

• “Peace-Processing-Is-Us”

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 581
  The Palestinian leadership “wants a deal with Israel without any negotiations” and Israel’s leadership “wants negotiations with the Palestinians without any deal.”And given the latest offer by the Israeli government and the negative response it had from the Palestinian authority, it looks like neither ...
  22 hours ago

• Prime Minister Benjamin Obama

  
  Shearim — Authority: 144
  B"H Unfortunately, our prime minister does not think this way (see above picture) and prefers to give in to Obama. But did we expect anything else ? As soon as Netanyahu sees Obama, he forgets about all Zionist ideologies and even about his country. The question is for how long is he willing to resist the ...
  23 hours ago

• Settlements ‘Moratorium’ Still Short of Freeze

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 136
  U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday that Israel will impose a 10-month "moratorium" on settlements, but warned that the move falls short of a freeze on settlement building — a ...
  1 day ago

• South Africa echoes apartheid in Israel

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 135
  A country that knows far too well about racial discrimination tells it like it is : The South African government has issued an unusually harsh statement condemning Israel for approving 900 new housing units in Gilo and evicting Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes, comparing Israel’s actions to the ...
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• Netanyahu’s Announces Settlement Non-Freeze

  
  Skeptical Eye — Authority: 139
  Good news in the paper this morning. Great news, in fact. According to Ha’aretz : Netanyahu declares 10-month settlement freeze ‘to restart peace talks’ Yes indeed, there’s gonna be peace in the Middle East! I’m being sarcastic, of course. As I’ve come to learn, whenever there appears to be good ...
  1 day ago

• What moratorium? Netanyahu playing games

  
  Promised Land — Authority: 123
  The top news item this evening on walla.co.il – Israel’s most popular web site – reads as follows: “Netanyahu in a message to Obama: Abu-Mazen has no more excuses”. I think this sums it all up. The settlements moratorium PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced was never intended to re-ignite the peace process. ...
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• Palestinian farmers don’t care about meaningless gestures

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 135
  Israel calls a partial settlement halt – rightly rejected by the Palestinians and only partially praised by J Street , both certainly not helped by the fact that East Jerusalem is excluded from the announcement – and apartheid continues : The human rights organization Yesh Din says not one of the 69 ...
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• Gilo in Perspective

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  How did the media report building plans for a Jerusalem suburb? Israel has recently come in for international criticism over the approval for construction of 900 housing units in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. Irrespective of ones views on this policy, it is the responsibility of the media to ...
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• Cabinet approves 10-month West Bank settlement freeze

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  The security cabinet approved Wednesday evening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus proposal to halt construction in the West Bank settlements for a period of 10 months. Eleven ministers voted in favor of the plan, while Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau opposed the initiative, which was coordinated with ...
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• Settlement Freeze, Schmettlement Freeze (or "Weve heard this one before")

  
  US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation — Authority: 421
  The following media release was sent out this afternoon by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: U.S. Must Hold Israel Accountable for Lack of Real Settlement Freeze Washington, DC - The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation welcomed today Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchells ...
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• BREAKING: Israel agrees to 10 month settlement freeze

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  By GottaLaff Just broke on MSNBC: Netanyahu agreed to a 10 month settlement freeze. Thats all I heard, just a sentence or two. Ill update when more details emerge. UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a 10-month halt in new construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank . ...
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• Why does Netanyahu want to negotiate so much?

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 614
  By Ted Belman I find the rational for this Netanyahu: Settlement freeze would prove Israel really wants peace very disturbing and unconvincing. Netanyahu said, “In the international circumstances that have been created, this step will advance Israel’s broad international interests. This is not a simple ...
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