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Is Bibi already backing away from controversial building plan?

Is Bibi already backing away from controversial building plan?

Linda Gradstein The Media Line Israeli police tore down Palestinian protest tents in an area slated for Israeli building just outside Jerusalem after the Supreme...

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Abbas to petition court to stop E1 construction in Israel

Abbas to petition court to stop E1 construction in Israel

JERUSALEM – PA President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that his government will have no choice but to turn to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in...

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Europe loud on settlements, quiet on terrorism

Europe loud on settlements, quiet on terrorism

Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency When Israel evacuated the Jewish communities from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, no one imagined that the area would become a...

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Barak proposes unilateral withdrawal from outlying settlements, outposts

Barak proposes unilateral withdrawal from outlying settlements, outposts

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak proposed in a newspaper interview that Israel unilaterally withdraw from outlying West Bank settlements and...

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Telling truth versus selling truth: the world’s response to Israel’s Levy Report

Telling truth versus selling truth: the world’s response to Israel’s Levy Report

In January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commissioned the Levy Committee to investigate the legal status of Judea and Samaria (West Bank). The three-member...

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