Tag: Settlement

  • U.S. warns Israel: Don’t build up West Bank corridor

    Aluf Benn | Ha’aretz 24 July 2009 The U.S. administration has issued a stiff warning to Israel not to build in the area known as E-1, which lies between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. Any change in the status quo in E-1 would be “extremely damaging,” even “corrosive,” the message said.…

  • ‘No difference to U.S. between outpost, East Jerusalem construction’

    Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid & Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 20 July 2009 The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze on settlement construction, American sources have informed both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This clarification came in the context of…

  • A day in the West Bank shows ‘the soldiers are settlers but in uniform. They both symbolize the occupation.’

    Mairav Zonszein, Antony Loewenstein & Joseph Dana | Mondoweiss 18 July 2009 The occupation can seem predictably mundane from a distance. To most Israelis the settlement project is seen as a problem, but a problem happening “over there” and utterly removed from their lives. Rampaging settlers are viewed occasionally on television. Violent Palestinians are seen…

  • Palestinian home and olive tree destroyed by settlers in At-Tuwani

    Christan Peacemaker Team 17 July 2009 AT-TUWANI: On the morning of 17 July, a Palestinian family from the village of At-Tuwani discovered that their newly constructed house was destroyed during the previous night. In addition, the family discovered an olive tree located near the new house cut in half. The family believes that Israel settlers…

  • EU eyes exports from Israeli settlements

    Ralf Beste and Christoph Schult | BusinessWeek 14 July 2009 The Israeli settlement known as Maale Adumim sits fortress-like atop a red stone plateau. In the Bible, the road to the plateau was known as the “steep red road.” As the largest Israeli settlement in the Palestinian-administered areas of the West Bank, Maale Adumim is…