FMEP has long been a trusted resource on settlement-related issues, reflecting both the excellent work of our grantees on the ground and our own in-house expertise. FMEP’s focus on settlements derives from our commitment to achieving lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace, and our recognition of the fact that Israeli settlements – established for the explicit purpose of dispossessing Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem of land and resources – are antithetical to that goal.
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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The September visit of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the Middle East reinvigorated efforts to formally resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and offered the Clinton…
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The formal framework of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, set out in the Oslo I, Oslo II, and Hebron agreements, has been in crisis since Israel’s decision in…
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The streets of East Jerusalem’s commercial center begin to empty in mid-afternoon, as the workday ends and people return to their homes. By evening, when…
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The Clinton administration is faced with an ongoing crisis in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). This crisis has less to do with…
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One of the issues at the top of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agenda during his February visit to Washington was the extent of Israel’s…
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The Clinton administration is directing more critical public attention toward Israel’s settlement expansion policies than at any time since it came to power in 1992.
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When assessing the colonization policies of Israel’s two main parties–Labor and Likud–it is instructive to recall a bit of Israeli folk wisdom. “A Likud government,”…