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Entries Tagged as 'Settlements'

Connecting the dots

October 11th, 2007 · 33 Comments

If we connect a few dots that have emerged over the past week or so, it would appear that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has begun quietly making the necessary political preparations that will allow him to make substantive concessions to the Palestinians on Jerusalem and outposts.
On October 1, the government moved the West Bank […]

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Tags: Ehud Barak · Settlements · Peace Process · Ehud Olmert · Palestinian · Jerusalem · Israel

Army expropriates land for E1 settlement

October 9th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Here’s the lastest on the E1 settlement expansion I wrote about a few days ago.
The Israel Defense Forces recently issued an order expropriating over 1,100 dunams of land from four Arab villages located between East Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim.
The land is slated to be used for a new Palestinian road […]

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Tags: Settlements · Israel