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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Israel’s imminent withdrawal from south Lebanon is setting into motion a number of changes in the regional strategic landscape, changes with the potential to create…
According to U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Israeli-Palestinian talks on final status are “working very well. They’ve got a real plan for the future.” Perhaps…
Israelis and Palestinians are, at last, engaged in serious negotiations on the specific elements of a framework agreement on final status. In the wake of…
These are momentous days in the history of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The July summit at Camp David, conditioned by backchannel diplomacy…
These are momentous days in the history of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The July summit at Camp David and the battles that…
A few days before the September violence that consumed Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip, a group of analysts specializing in Israeli and Palestinian…
Despite an extraordinary effort, a departing President Bill Clinton failed in his effort to formally establish agreed-upon parameters for the future conduct of final status…
Ariel Sharon is a pragmatic expansionist who views Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights as both an…
The contention that the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and Israeli-Palestinian peace are not incompatible is one of the principal assumptions upon…
Demands for a freeze in the expansion of Israeli civilian settlements located in territories occupied by Israel in June 1967 are now at the center…