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White House: Trump can maintain great ties and be aggressive
Trump reportedly asked Netanyahu if he actually cares about peace
By Eric Cortellessa
According to Axios, the US president in phone call last year questioned Israeli PM's commitment to diplomacy over plans for further settlement construction
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office, March 5, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office, March 5, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)
April 23, 2018, 3:27 am
Trump reportedly asked Netanyahu if he actually cares about peace
According to Axios, the US president in phone call last year questioned Israeli PM's commitment to diplomacy over plans for further settlement construction
By Eric Cortellessa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L), along with MK Avi Dichter and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, visit a new section of the security barrier between Israel and the West Bank near Tarqumiyah on July 20, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
April 21, 2018, 4:40 pm
Liberman hails US decision to drop ‘occupied’ from West Bank terminology
Defense minister says State Department telling the truth, as new document refers only to 'Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza,' with no comment on status of the territories
By TOI staff and Eric Cortellessa
A view of construction in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
April 21, 2018, 2:11 am
Trump’s State Department no longer calls West Bank ‘occupied’ in annual report
In first, document on human rights abuses refers simply to 'Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza,' with no comment on the status of the territories
By Eric Cortellessa
A Defense Ministry unit detonates mines near the Karnei Shomron settlement in the northern West Bank. (Screen capture/Defense Ministry)
April 3, 2018, 7:33 pm
Defense Ministry clears minefield near settlement, pledges new housing on site
Detonation of buried bombs near Karnei Shomron part of broader project to blow up some 2,200 landmines across West Bank, ostensibly making way for more building
By Jacob Magid
Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi attends a discussion on the 'Jewish State' bill in the Knesset, on October 23, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 26, 2018, 11:02 pm
Palestinians will breach West Bank settlement fences, Arab MK predicts
Ahmed Tibi says non-violent mass protest will happen in the West Bank, the only question is when
By Sue Surkes
A new housing project being built in the Israeli settlement of Nokdim on October 24, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 4:29 am
Most new West Bank homes being built in ‘isolated settlements’ — monitor
Peace Now figures show slight decrease in number of construction starts in past year, but 78% of new homes are well beyond Green Line, and thousands more are in the pipeline
By Jacob Magid
The first caravan is placed on the grounds of the new Amichai settlement for evacuees of the illegal Amona outpost on February 21, 2018. (Courtesy: Amona evacuees)
March 25, 2018, 6:04 pm
Amona evacuees to move into first new West Bank settlement in 25 years
First 25 families to enter their homes in an official ceremony in Amichai on Monday, 14 months after illegal outpost was razed; remaining 17 families to arrive after Passover
By Jacob Magid
American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2018, 11:09 pm
Palestinians call to put US ambassador Friedman on ‘global terror list’
Palestinian Authority steps up war of words with American envoy to Israel, days after Abbas calls him the 'son of a dog'
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinian laborers work at the construction site of a new housing project in the Israeli settlement of Ariel near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
March 20, 2018, 11:36 pm
Strike at Defense Ministry body threatens to freeze settlement approvals
Civil Administration labor action also leaves thousands of Palestinians without entry permits, halts enforcement against illegal building in West Bank
By Jacob Magid
Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a Likud party conference in Lod, on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 20, 2018, 8:33 am
Gideon Sa’ar: Instead of new settlements, build up existing ones
Former minister and declared future prime ministerial candidate predicts Israel will annex parts of the West Bank within a decade
By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz
World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder on October 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 19, 2018, 3:57 pm
Top Jewish advocate Ronald Lauder excoriates Israeli policies in rare criticism
WJC president says West Bank occupation, Orthodox hegemony are Israel’s ‘self inflicted wounds,’ in New York Times op-ed
By JTA
Bedouin students arrive at school at Khan al-Ahmar, near the Kfar Adumim settlement in the West Bank on September 2, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
March 9, 2018, 6:41 am
Unwanted by Israel and the PA, Bedouin have nowhere to go but ‘up in the air’
The Jahalin clan's central West Bank village is about to be demolished by security forces, and its residents are caught in the power struggle between Jerusalem and Ramallah
By Jacob Magid
Jordan's King Abdullah II (right), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and their delegations at the Royal Palace, in Amman, Jordan, January 29, 2018. (Khalil Mazraawi, Pool via AP)
March 9, 2018, 12:46 am
Arabs advising Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or risk losing out — report
Arab diplomat tells Egyptian newspaper that Palestinians should take what they can now rather than reject proposal out of hand and see settlements grow unfettered
By Khaled Abu Toameh
A crane places a caravan on the hilltop of a new industrial zone in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on March 6, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)
March 7, 2018, 4:36 pm
First trailers installed at new settlement industrial zone near Hebron
Site to open on hilltop next to West Bank town of Kiryat Arba, 35 years after state seized land for public use
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian flag waves in front of the White House on December 8, 2017, in Washington, DC, at a protest against US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP PHOTO / mari matsuri)
March 6, 2018, 2:03 pm
AIPAC rekindles old debate: Does Israel seek a two-state solution?
After lobby group's CEO calls for Palestinian statehood, Israeli hawks accuse him of misrepresenting the government's formal position on the matter. The only problem: there is none
By Raphael Ahren
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