Tag: Settlement
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More Bedouin structures demolished in Jordan Valley
24 November 2010 | Ma’an News Agency & ISM As the sun rose early Wednesday, Palestinian Bedouins living in Abu Al-Ajaj, a small village in the Jordan Valley, were surprised to see Israeli bulldozers demolishing their sheds and sheep shelters. The incident came only two weeks after Israeli authorities confiscated lands belonging to the village…
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Economic prison zones
21 November 2010 | Sam Bahour, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah. This essay was made possible with partial support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. When a project mixes the feel-good words of jobs, economic development and Israeli- Palestinian cooperation, how can anyone complain?…
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U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze
13 November|Haaretz Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer by the United States to reinstate a freeze on West Bank Settlement construction in return for a package of…