Today, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN Security Council, discussing the failure of US leadership and laying out his proposal for a way…

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In Al-Monitor, FMEP President Lara Friedman explains, “Boycotting settlement products is not a boycott of Israel. It’s about differentiating between the West Bank and Israel.”

FMEP’s weekly report covering Israeli settlement activity. This week including: Law-Breaking settler Pinchas Wallerstein appointed to lead government team tasked with legalizing outposts; High Planning Council approves new settlement plans including an unusual, temporary plan to house evacuees from the Netiv Ha’avot outpost; Bibi insinuates that the U.S. has been involved in discussions about West Bank annexation plans; three touristic settlement projects in East Jerusalem were advanced; and, Lara Friedman responds to Trump’s ‘word salad’ response to a question about settlements.

On President Trump’s recent statement on settlements, FMEP’s Lara Friedman said, “He didn’t raise the issue of settlements, he was asked about it and gave a word salad response that implies nothing. It’s like rolling in place. There was nothing that indicated that there will be any pressure on Israel in response to the settlements.”

Preeminent Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard asks difficult questions about the role human rights lawyers play in challenging Israel’s occupation in his new book,…

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FMEP’s weekly report on Israeli settlement activity, this week covering: the Israeli Cabinet’s decision to retroactively legalize the Havat Gilad outpost, making it a settlement; the continued, unauthorized expansion of the Halamish settlement; the Israeli Knesset’s “Land of Israel” caucus pushes for the formal annexation of the West Bank; Yesh Din’s report on the site of the evacuated Amona outpost; and, details of Trump’s “ultimate deal” signal a windfall for Israel.

“If I was in charge of going to court to prove that the state of Israel’s true intention with its settlement enterprise is to grab as…