Israel to Raze 150 Palestinian Homes

Israel has announced plans to demolish 150 Palestinian homes in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem Al-Quds in a move that would displace more than 1,000 Palestinians.

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Israeli Settlements and Obama's Offer

Both the US President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced this agreement during the tripartite meeting of Obama, the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Again shortly after the meeting, the United States asserted it would no longer demand Israel to stop or freeze the establishment of settlements , but to "rationalize it".

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Israel: The Maps Tell the True Story

The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.

The following maps show what Israel has actually done.

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Israel Set to Approve Massive New Settlement Near Bethlehem

Israel’s Ministry of the Interior is expected to approve could become the most populous single settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967, an Israeli newspaper reported on Wendesday.

The Hebrew-language daily Ma’ariv stated that the project, prepared by both the Ministry of the Interior and the Jerusalem Municipality, calls for the construction of 14,000 housing units for 40,000 Jewish Israelis on 3,000 dunums (three square kilometers) of land near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

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How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall

On July 9, 2004 in a unanimous decision, the International Court of Justice (IJC) ruled that "the construction of the Wall being built by Israel, and its associated regime, are contrary to international law...." It said construction on it must cease. Built sections must be dismantled, Palestinian land returned, and compensation paid for property destroyed. The UN General Assembly endorsed the decision. Israel rejected it out of hand, keeps seizing Palestinian land, continues the wall's construction, and ruthlessly suppresses efforts to halt it.

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'Israel Plans to Grab More Arab Land'

Palestinian sources say Israel is working on a new settlement plan that is equal to the grab of nearly 140-thousand acres of Arab land near Jerusalem (al-Quds).

The new project focuses on the areas located around al-Quds by expanding the Maale Adumim settlement and connecting other settlements around the city.

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Jewish Groups Accuse Obama of Promoting 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Jews

Hardline pro-Israel groups in the US have been confronting President Barack Obama's demands for a halt to settlement expansion by accusing him of promoting the ethnic cleansing of Jews and jeopardising Israel's security.

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Israel Illegally Annexes West Bank Palestinian Village

The Israeli occupation regime is continuing its policies of expansion, aggression, and humiliation of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.

Contrary to the decision taken by the Israeli authorities in 2006, they have annexed the Palestinian village of Beit Iksa by placing it on the map west of the apartheid wall.

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Israeli Soldiers Watch Settlers Grab Nablus Land

Settlers have grabbed acres of Palestinian land south of the West Bank city of Nablus while Israeli soldiers stand and watch the incident as inactive onlookers.

The Palestinian Authority official monitoring settler activity in the northern West Bank said dozens of settlers overran the land near a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Hawara village on Friday.

They unloaded metal and barbed wire from trucks and fenced off the 40,000-square-meter area, which lies between the villages of Kafr Qalil and Burin, Ghassan Dughlus reported.

He said soldiers stationed at the nearby Huwwara checkpoint did not intervene.

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Israel 'to Grab' Dead Sea Shore as Property

Israel plans declaring ownership of the West Bank's Dead Sea shore as “state property,” to confiscate more Palestinian land, an anti-settlement group says.

"Israeli authorities have announced that they intend to declare as state land some 138,600 dunums (34,650 acres) that has emerged along the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank due to the drop in the water level," said Hagit Ofran of the Peace Now group Tuesday, quoted by AFP.

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