Tag: Settlement
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Investment giant BlackRock divests from Leviev’s Africa-Israel due to Israeli settlements
Adalah-NY 25 August 2009 In another stunning blow to Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev, the Israeli business magazine Globes Online has reported that BlackRock Inc., one of the world’s largest investment management firms, has divested from Leviev’s Africa-Israel Investments. The Globes article follows a similar report by the Norwegian news service Norwatch. The move comes after…
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How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 24 August 2009 There is a hilltop east of Jerusalem with striking views down into Jericho, across the dry slopes of the West Bank and on to the Dead Sea. From the red ochre of the rock came the name Ma’ale Adumim, Hebrew for the Red Ascent. Today it is…
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One arrested during demonstration against settlement expansion
Palestine Solidarity Project 21 August 2009 Construction of a road has begun on Palestinian land right outside the settlement Karmei Tsur, between Beit Omar and Halhoul, about two weeks ago. The construction has happened between the edge of the settlement and a “security fence” that the military built three years ago. This agricultural land still…