Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 23 #3
Secretary of State John Kerry has revived U.S. interest in a diplomatic solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu,…
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From 1991-2014, FMEP published a quarterly Settlement Report authored by Geoffrey Aaronson, archives of which can be accessed online here. In April 2017, FMEP re-launched its Settlement Report as a weekly newsletter, authored by FMEP’s Kristin McCarthy. Current and archived editions of the Settlement Report are found below. Click here to subscribe to the weekly Settlement Report.
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 23 #1
Benjamin Netanyahu will lead Israel’s next government, offering the Likud Party leader the chance to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister since Israel’s founder David Ben…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #6
Israel rules the West Bank like an obedient province, while it views the Gaza Strip as a hostile state. The result, as Barack Obama administration…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #5
Today, policymakers and the public alike have surrendered in the face of dysfunctional domestic politics and the passions that drive the conflict. They are bored…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #4
In June, the top-level Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria hand-picked by Netanyahu in March rejected the international consensus, and…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #3
Israel’s ruling institutions—the Knesset and the courts—are the instruments for imparting a stamp of legality on an extraordinary system that has all but emptied the…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #2
The Israel Defense Forces and civilian police have, when called upon, obeyed decisions by Israel’s political leadership to evacuate settlers and settlements. More recently, however,…
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 22 #1
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has not ended the occupation, but it has recorded one significant accomplishment. As one Israeli commentator explained, “Today it seems that…
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Israeli Settlements: Population Growth and Concentration 1995-2011
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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol 21 #6
The Madrid Peace Conference convened two decades ago in a spirit of great optimism. However it was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, dragged to the meeting…