U.S. opposition to settlement construction has undergone a substantial, continuous erosion in the period since the election of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in July 1992.…

A little more than one year ago, while secret talks were going on between Israel and the PLO, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that an…

Israelis are now engaged in one of the most difficult, and potentially revolutionary, debates in the country’s 46-year history. The Oslo accords, the February massacre…

The massacre by an Israeli settler of nearly 40 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hebron in the early morning hours of February…

The rampage by a settler at Hebron’s Ibrahami Mosque on February 25 has forced the settlement issue into the center of Israeli life and has…

The growing violence in the occupied territories has served notice that the respite from a confrontation over settlements which both Israel and the Palestine Liberation…

The agreement on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip signed on September 13 contains four specific references to Israeli settlements and makes…

The latest State Department annual report on Israeli settlement in the occupied territories attempts to present the settlement policies of the Rabin government in their…

U.S. opposition to settlements eased when Assistant Secretary of State Edward Djerejian testified in support of their “natural growth.” This policy change comes at a…