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Time to Take Trump at His Word on Israel-Palestine
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in LobeLog.com December 11, 2017. Since well before Election Day, Donald Trump and his key advisors made clear that…
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 11, 2017
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FMEP Legislative Round-Up: December 8, 2017
1. Bills & Resolutions 2. Hearings 3. On the Record *Brought to you in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Round-Up was born!…
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Settlement Report: December 8, 2017
A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: Israel’s High Court orders the state to defend the Regulation Law a second time; Yesh Din petitions to rehear the Amona outpost case given recently revealed implications of the ruling; the Ofra settlement moves to retroactively legalize a sewage treatment plant; B’Tselem released a new report documenting Israel’s waste and sewage policies that harm Palestinians; the United Nations prepares to release a database of companies conducting business with Israeli settlements; an official says the U.S. announcement on Jerusalem has nothing to do with East Jerusalem settlements; Jared Kushner’s ties to pro-settlement activity continue to deepen.
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 8, 2017
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Reflections on the Death of the Peace Process
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in Times of Israel, December 6, 2017. One memorable night in August 1993, I went to sleep in a…
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Huffington Post, December 7, 2017. Back in February 2016, a New York bankruptcy lawyer named David Friedman…
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 7, 2017
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
Today, 10 months into the Trump Administration’s tenure in office and six months after David Friedman took up his post as U.S. ambassador to Israel, things are going exactly as one should have expected, if one had taken seriously both Friedman’s special role and his extensive record of policy statements made over the course of the 2016 campaign and in the years preceding it.