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A new surge of settler outposts is terrorizing Palestinians off their land
Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction.
By
Imad Abu Hawash
March 8, 2024
How to establish a new settlement without the world noticing
Billed as a ‘neighborhood’ in Gush Etzion, the Netiv Ha’avot plan would transform a small Israeli outpost into a substantial West Bank settlement.
By
Yonatan Mizrahi
October 4, 2023
Everyone is in on the plunder of Palestinian land
The retroactive legalization of a settler outpost exposes the complicity of the entire Zionist spectrum in the dispossession of Palestinians.
By
Orly Noy
August 2, 2022
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Trump and Netanyahu are allies in a losing battle
Both the American and Israeli governments reek of paranoia, fear, and desperation. The struggle against them must begin with the knowledge that we are opposing a desperate and fearful group. By all accounts, the new administration in the U.S., and the veteran one in Israel should be relaxing and enjoying the heights of power they have attained.…
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Roi Maor
February 9, 2017
A ‘wave of violence’ that never actually ends
When the Israeli media talks about the latest ‘wave of violence,’ it leaves out the five unarmed Palestinians who were shot to death by soldiers and police officers in the past few months. The newspaper headlines over the past few days leave no room for doubt regarding what has been happening here lately. “Terror returns,”…
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Haggai Matar
September 20, 2016
Settler violence aims to dispossess, and it works
When A saw Israeli civilians approach, he did the sensible thing and fled. This is what quiet terrorism looks like. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz A. is a resident of the village Faratha in the West Bank. He declined to have his name published, as he has become a regular target for attacks…
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May 31, 2016
This is how settlers take over Palestinian land
From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank. By Dror Etkes On February 9, 2004, Abdelatif Hassan Samarin, a resident of the West Bank…
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January 8, 2016
The Palestinian village that refuses to give up on popular struggle
Even after 11 years of struggle, the residents of Bil’in refuse to forget about the land that was taken from them. The year was 2006. The village Bil’in near Ramallah had already marked over a year of weekly protests against the separation barrier that cuts them off from their land. One day, during a hearing…
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Haggai Matar
December 12, 2015
How American high school students taught me about the occupation
Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky has been showing her latest movie, ‘On the Side of the Road” — a documentary on how Israelis view the Nakba — around the world for nearly a year. What happened after she screened her film for a class of American high school students took her by surprise. By Lia Tarachansky The…
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June 6, 2015
PHOTOS: When Israel decides to cut Palestinian farmers off from their land
The Israeli army decided last week to close the main gateway Palestinian farmers from four villages use to access their lands — which Israel cut them off from with the separation fence. After a protest the army re-opened the gate, but the incident shows how Israel controls every aspect of Palestinian life. Photos and Text:…
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Activestills
May 19, 2015
‘Israeli cellular companies paid to squat on Palestinian land’
The companies never even received permits to build antenna towers in the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Migron, are now asking the courts to let them stay even after the settlement itself was demolished, Walla reports. Israel’s three major cellular companies, including the franchisee of Orange, paid rent to Israeli settlers who illegally established…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 14, 2015
How Bibi is turning the defense budget into a settler slush fund
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ya’alon will transfer NIS 70 million from the defense budget to compensate the Ulpana Hill lawbreakers. How will the common soldier interpret the command’s will? By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Israel’s Channel 10 exposed earlier this week another layer in the unending saga of Ulpana Hill: Prime…
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January 9, 2015
Palestine’s ICC bid is only as threatening as Israel makes it
Instead of reviling Palestinian accession to the International Criminal Court as an effort to delegitimize and isolate it, Israel would be better off focusing inward. By Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man One of the more ironic aspects of Israeli opposition to Palestinian accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is its deep involvement in…
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January 2, 2015
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