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The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) is a nonprofit organization that promotes peace between Israel and Palestine, via two states, that meets the fundamental needs of both peoples. FMEP offers speakers, sponsors programs, makes small grants, and publishes the Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories containing analysis, commentary, maps, and other data on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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"The [Settlement] Report is a comprehensive and vital guide for monitoring the issue of settlements, an issue that has to be addressed if there is to be an Israeli-Palestinian peace."

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former U.S. National Security Advisor

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Get event notifications by email 		Mar 2008 Settlement Report Olmert and Settlements: Lofty Goals Betrayed by Actions on the Ground
Since his election as prime minister, Ehud Olmert, long a stalwart supporter of Greater Israel, has made unprecedented... Read more

Lying to Oneself
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To Our Readers
Israel achieved extraordinary success in its early decades. Today, it is in deep trouble because of its fateful decision... Read more

Rice Testifies at FOROPS Subcommittee
On March 12, 2008, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the House Appropriations Committee’s Foreign... Read more

Containing Palestinian Neighborhoods in and Around Jerusalem's Old City - 2008
This map illustrates the broader territorial context of Israel’s settlement program in the heart of East Jerusalem where... Read more

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Map: Containing Palestinian Neighborhoods in and Around Jerusalem's Old City - 2008

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February-March 2008 Settlement Report

Pariah Diplomacy
by Jimmy Carter
| Apr 28

Our Debt to Jimmy Carter
Ha'aretz Editorial
| Apr 15

Jewish Liberals to Launch a Counterpoint to AIPAC
Political Funds, Lobbying to Promote Arab-Israeli Peace Deal
by Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post
| Apr 15

Grab More Hills, Expand the Territory
by Henry Siegman
London Review of Books
| Apr 10

The Gaza Bombshell
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.


| Mar 5

Bring in Hamas
by Henry Siegman
International Herald Tribune
| Mar 5