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| | Israeli settlement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Most Israeli and US proposals for final settlement have also involved Israel being allowed to retain long established communities in the territories near Israel and in "East Jerusalem" (the majority of the settler population is near the "Green Line"), with Israel annexing the land on which the communities are located. | | | An Israeli settlement refers to a housing development for Israeli Jewish settlers in areas which came under the control of Israel as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War beyond the boundaries defined by the 1949 Armistice Agreements. | | | In 2004, the Israeli government announced its unilateral disengagement plan to dismantle all settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as four settlements in the West Bank. |
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| | Israeli Settlements and International Law |
| | Similarly, as Israeli settlements cannot be considered illegal, they cannot constitute a "grave violation" of the Geneva Convention, and hence any claim that they constitute a "war crime" is without any legal basis. | | | Repeated charges regarding the illegality of Israeli settlements must therefore be regarded as politically motivated, without foundation in international law. | | | The attempt to present Israeli settlements as a violation of this principle is clearly untenable. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/settlelaw.html
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| | Israeli-Palestinian conflict - encyclopedia article about Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| | The Israeli policy of sponsoring, supporting, and/or tolerating the establishment of such settlements is one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the conflict's timeline began decades earlier, in the 1920s. | | | The settlement An Israeli settlement refers to a housing development for Israeli Jewish settlers in areas which came under the control of Israel as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War beyond the boundaries defined by the 1949 Armistice Agreements. | | | Many Israelis, including a significant portion of Sharon's own Likud Party are worried that the lack of Israeli military presence in the Gaza Strip will lead to an increase in suicide attacks on Israel. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Israeli-Palestinian%20conflict
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| | The Head Heeb: Israel - Politics Archives |
| | The Israeli Supreme Court is among the most activist courts in the world, but like courts in most other countries, it has traditionally deferred to the government on issues of security and diplomacy. | | | In cases where citizens argue that their rights under the Basic Laws are infringed, the Israeli courts apply a system of scrutiny similar to what American courts use in constitutional cases, in which the rights of the individual are balanced against the interests of the state: | | | Israeli party recruitment drives are notoriously transitory; many party members recruited for leadership races end up letting their membership lapse and voting for other parties at the general election, and relatively few become party activists. |
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| | Poll 26 Abu Ghneim, Armed Attacks, Permanent Settlement, Peace Process, and Local Elections Center for Palestine Research and Studies Survey Research Unit |
| | The poll deals with Israeli settlement activities in Abu Ghnaim, armed attacks, a permanent settlement plan, support for the peace process, and refugees' participation in local elections. | | | the Palestinians agree to Israeli annexation of settlement blocs containing most settlers. | | | Despite that, however, 91% of the Palestinians do not trust the intentions of the current Israeli government. |
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| | Israeli settlements' council converts outpost into permanent settlement |
| | Few months ago, the Israeli government indicated, in a report it issued, that around 120 settlement outposts were existing on different parts of the occupied Palestine. | | | Israeli settlements' council converts outpost into permanent settlement | | | AL-Khalil - The Israeli regional council for Al-Khalil Mount settlements in the occupied West Bank declared intention to erect a new permanent settlement in the site where some random Israeli outposts are located, the Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported. |
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http://www.palestine-info.net/cgi-bin/english/exec/view.cgi/17/12241
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Rerouted West Bank barrier detailed |
| | The disclosure by Nezah Mashiah, head of the barrier project in the Defense Ministry, was a sign that recent international and domestic challenges would not deter Israel from keeping Jewish settlement blocs on the "Israeli side" of the barrier. | | | One of the dead was identified as Amr Abu Suta, a militant leader whom Israel accused of involvement in the 1992 killing of three Israeli soldiers in a Jewish settlement in Gaza. | | | The Netherlands-based International Court of Justice and a UN General Assembly resolution called on Israel to tear down the wall, and the Israeli Supreme Court ordered a repositioning of a key section. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/07/30/rerouted_west_bank_barrier_detailed
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| | Lawrence of Cyberia: Peace Process |
| | The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose the demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories, and now additionally involved in resisting land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and âseparationâ, the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more. | | | Perhaps the fact that the Geneva Accord, the first document to finally tackle the substantive issues of the Palestinian-Israeli question, was forged without American help is a reflection of the fact that they are better off without us. | | | Gush Shalom is an Israeli peace organization whose primary aim is to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people, based on the principles of an end to occupation and a two-state solution. |
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| | Middle East Historical Documents - Quartet Road Map for Israeli-Palestinian Peace September 2002 |
| | Consistent with the vision expressed by President Bush, this means that the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 will be ended through a settlement negotiated between the parties and based on U.N. resolutions 242 and 338, with Israeli withdrawal to secure and recognized borders. | | | Palestinians and Israelis have greeted each version with various reservations. | | | Israelis and Palestinians should reestablish security cooperation and reciprocal steps should be taken by Israel as the Palestinians work to combat terrorism in all its forms. |
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| | The Epoch Times :: Israeli High Court Opens Hearing on West Bank Barrier |
| | Israeli officials say the barrier could be removed once a peace settlement is reached with the Palestinians. | | | The Israeli Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on the case within the next few days. | | | Two Israeli human rights groups - the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and HaMoked, the Center for the Defense of the Individual - are challenging the barrier, arguing the project is illegal because it disrupts the lives of Palestinians and parts of it are being built on occupied territory. |
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| | USATODAY.com - West Bank barrier route disputed, Israeli missile kills 2 |
| | In the Israeli helicopter attack, one of the dead was identified as Amr Abu Suta, who Israel accused of involvement in the 1992 slaying of three Israeli soldiers in a Jewish settlement in Gaza. | | | The barrier is an integral part of Sharon's plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements by the end of September 2005. | | | The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, this month ruled in a nonbinding opinion that the entire barrier was illegal and that it should be torn down. |
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| | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Issues in a Nutshell |
| | The Oslo accords were supposed to have led to a peaceful resolution of the conflict, but continued Israeli settlement and Palestinian violence and incitement degenerated into open conflict in September 2000. | | | An Israeli Supreme Court ruling declared that the fence is not illegal in principle, but that the route must be changed to optimize the balance between security and humanitarian concerns. | | | Palestinians demand withdrawal from all of the land conquered in the 1967 and evacuation of the settlements. |
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| | The Israeli Peace Plan of Levi Eshkol |
| | I have not enumerated all the boons such a settlement would imply, or, indeed, all the problems that are liable to arise. | | | The peace settlement will be made on the basis of Israel as it is. Today, the States that signed the agreements have crystallized the patterns of their lives and developmental undertakings behind the existing borders. | | | I am quoting from the United Nations Charter, which both we and the Arab States signed. |
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| | :: Americans for Peace Now :: |
| | APN endorses Israels request for additional U.S. aid; offers options to consider making the aid a tool toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. | | | Democracy Subverted: Peace Now Releases New Report on Illegal Outposts & Other Settlement Growth in the Occupied Territories | | | APN Backs Israeli Disengagement Aid Request; Offers Options to Shape Funding to Maintain Peace Momentum |
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| | :: Americans for Peace Now :: |
| | Settlers on Sunday morning evacuated at the request of the Israel Defense Forces the nine buildings in which they were living in the illegal West Bank outpost of Amuna. | | | The first petition against an illegal West Bank settlement outpost was submitted to the High Court of Justice on Sunday morning. | | | BOOK EM, DANO: The Israeli Peace Now movement petitioned the High Court of Justice to pressure the Israeli government to do the [+] |
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| | Canadian Friends of Peace Now |
| | The Israeli leadership contends that expanding existing settlements, which it calls "natural growth," somehow does not violate the freeze on all settlement activity called for in the Road Map peace plan. | | | "The pro-settler extremists must not be allowed to challenge the rule of law and thwart the democratic will of the Israeli majority." | | | Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reached the historic conclusion that a greater Israel, encompassing most of the territories, is neither possible nor in Israel's strategic or demographic interests, says Mark Rosenblum, the founder and political director of Peace Now in the United States. |
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| | Special Report |
| | During the negotiations, the pace of Jewish settlement in "Greater Jerusalem" actually quickened, and the Israelis are continuing to push the boundaries of the Jerusalem district into the West Bank. | | | This supposition was revealed in a May 6, 1994 letter from the Israeli Embassy in the United States to the American Friends Service Committee Family Reunification Project in Chicago. | | | First, the Israelis as an occupying power in East Jerusalem are prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention from altering the normal life of the civilians in such matters as residency with their families. |
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| | Elements of a Performance-Based Road Map |
| | A settlement, negotiated between the parties, will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors. | | | Palestinians declare an unequivocal end to violence and terrorism and undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere. | | | The destination is a final and comprehensive settlement of the Israel-Palestinian conflict by 2005, as presented in President Bush’s speech of 24 June, and welcomed by the EU, Russia and the UN in the 16 July and 17 September Quartet Ministerial statements. |
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| | Today in Palestine! |
| | Israeli sources said yesterday that Bareif Ovenhaimer, chief of the peace now movement, anti Israeli occupation and settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) demanded the leadership of the leftist labor party set conditions before Sharon government in exchange of providing safety net for the government... | | | Dozens of Israeli settlers have asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office for details of compensation for leaving their homes voluntarily under a government evacuation plan, political sources said on Sunday. | | | Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet in its weekly meeting Sunday that he would not allow ministers and deputy ministers to be absent from Knesset (Parliament) votes on his disengagement plan. |
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| | Palestinian resentment for Barak's campaign to exclude Jerusalem from permanent settlement |
| | In his speech to a group of settlers in Maalia Adomim on Tuesday, Barak said, "You will remain a part of the Israeli state in any permanent settlement, and we will not remove a settlement comprising 125,000 citizens." | | | The Palestinian Authority expressed its resentment toward the declarations made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak regarding the future of occupied Jerusalem and the intensive campaign he is launching to exclude it from the permanent settlement with the Palestinians. | | | Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath expressed the PA's extreme annoyance over Barak's visit to Maalia Adomim settlement in East Jerusalem, which is established on confiscated Palestinian lands, and his confirmation of his commitment and joining it to Israel in any permanent settlement with the Palestinians. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Israel: Introduction & Country Profile |
| | In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives (from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip) and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. | | | But progress toward a permanent status agreement has been undermined by the outbreak of Palestinian-Israeli violence since September 2000. | | | In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. |
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| | Islam Online- News Section |
| | In the West Bank, the Israeli army fired at the Palestinian village of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem after the Jewish settlement of Gilo in annexed East Jerusalem came under fire, witnesses said. | | | In Amman, meanwhile, an employee of the Israeli embassy was shot and slightly wounded Tuesday evening when he and passengers in his car came under fire as he drove through a western district of the Jordanian capital. | | | On November 19th, Israeli Vice Consul Yoram Havivian was shot and wounded in the leg and in the hand. |
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| | Special Report |
| | Bashar’s father, the late Hafez al-Assad, supported the land-for-peace equation of the Madrid peace process, and later (at the Shepherdstown talks) accepted the principle of normalizing relations with Israel as part of an overall settlement of the Syrian-Israeli dispute. | | | Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sees a total Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 lines as counter to Israel’s interest, arguing that Israel’s borders would not be defensible without designating parts of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as security zones. | | | The peace proposal outlined by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in late February received a warm welcome in Europe and the United States, was cheered by liberal Israelis, and even forced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make a show of interest. |
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| | Israel and Palestine - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
| | The Israeli government exploited the ambiguities in the Oslo Accords to intensify settlement building, to limit Palestinians' freedom of movement, and to construct an elaborate network of access roads linking Israeli settlements to each other as well as to Israel. | | | Israeli Court Hears Barrier Case (February 9, 2004) | | | High Court Tells Israelis to Shift Part of Barrier (June 30, 2004) |
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| | israelinsider: politics: Israeli police chief says public opposition could block expulsion plans |
| | Israeli police chief says public opposition could block expulsion plans | | | He said the Gush Katif evacuation "will be tougher than the evacuation of Yamit" in Sinai, because Gush Katif is an integral part of the Land of Israel, and thus bound up with Zionism and religious belief: "The settlement of Gush Katif is ideological and faith-based." | | | israelinsider: politics: Israeli police chief says public opposition could block expulsion plans |
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| | Report: U.S. changes policy on West Bank - World News - MSNBC.com |
| | Since Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast War, Israeli leaders have consistently refused demands from the powerful Jewish settlement movement to declare sovereignty over the territory, fearing international condemnation and the end of a Jewish majority in the country. | | | A senior Israeli official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that Israel would stick to its decision not to comply with the ruling by the Hague, heeding only the rulings of the Israeli court. | | | But the decision by Sharon, the prime minister, to move forward with construction of the barrier along a route that wold put significant swaths of West Bank land on the âIsraeliâ side raised a firestorm of criticism worldwide, which climaxed with the Hague decision. |
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| | Overview: Teaching the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Rev. 2nd ed., Nov. 93 |
| | Israel never defined its border, partially because it was waiting for a general settlement with its neighbors, partially because some Israeli parties (Likud and others on the right) hoped to move beyond the armistice lines of 1949. | | | Palestinian and Israeli positions have a certain stability but are shifting across time (especially as governments and personalities change). | | | The focus is on one of the most volatile and complex of all conflicts: that between Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms. |
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| | Disengagement Turns Israeli Politics Upside Down - by Ferry Biedermann |
| | Earlier this year, in an ultimately vain attempt to bolster Sharon ahead of the poll in his Likud party, Bush changed long-standing official U.S. policy and for the first time said "reality on the ground" dictated that some settlement areas remain under Israeli control after a final peace deal with the Palestinians. | | | Israelis are concerned primarily with scenarios such as the prospect of civil war, rabbis calling on soldiers to refuse orders, and settler leaders comparing the proposed evacuation of occupied territory to the Nazi atrocities of World War II. | | | But moderate Palestinians and left-wing Israelis still support the plan not because they trust Sharon or believe in unilateral steps, but first because any withdrawal from Palestinian territory should be welcomed, and secondly because such steps may create their own dynamic unintended by anybody involved. |
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| | Israeli-Palestinian conflict timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hilltop 26, an illegal Israeli settlement near the city of Hebron, is peacefully dismantled by the Israel Defence Force. | | | Israeli forces withdraw from Jericho and Gaza City in compliance with the Oslo accords. | | | This is an incomplete timeline of events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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| | Timeline Israel 2000-2004 |
| | Israelis from the West Bank settlement of Itamar returning from funerals killed a Palestinian during a rampage in the village of Hawara. | | | Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian passing through an army checkpoint and militants were hit by an tank shell when they tried to lay an explosive near a border fence. | | | A Palestinian woman and her daughter (13) were killed by Israeli fire on a farm in the Gaza Strip. |
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