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Israel and U.S. struggle to conclude settlement pact (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

A Palestinian man inspects damages following Israeli air raids in the central town of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes struck three sites in the Islamist-run Palestinian Gaza Strip on Friday, wounding six people after a rocket and mortar rounds were fired into Israel from the coastal enclave.(AFP/Said Khatib)Reuters - Talks between Israeli and U.S. officials aimed at reviving Middle East peace talks have hit snags over incentives promised by Washington to persuade Israel to resume a freeze…

Israel and U.S. struggling to conclude settlement pact (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, smoke rises following explosions caused by Israeli military operations in Gaza City. The publication of the names and photographs of two hundred Israeli soldiers on a Web site calling them 'war criminals' drew a condemnation Friday from the Israeli military. Alongside the photographs, the site also published the addresses and ID numbers of many of the Israelis, including senior commanders and low-ranking soldiers, who it said participated in the three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza in late 2008. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)Reuters - Talks between Israeli and U.S. officials aimed at reviving Middle East peace negotiations have hit snags over incentives promised by Washington to persuade Israel to resume a freeze…

Gitmo Inmates Settlement: Why Britain Decided to Pay (Time.com)

November 18th, 2010

Time.com - By agreeing to pay millions of dollars in compensation to GuantÁnamo detainees, the British government hopes to have secured the secrecy of its intelligence — and eased a…

Israeli government seen accepting new settlement freeze (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian boy during a protest by foreign, Israeli and Palestinian activists against a nearby Jewish settlement north of the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron last month. Israel's cabinet will on Sunday consider a US incentives package designed to persuade it to impose a new settlement freeze that could kick-start stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader)Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably win narrow approval from his coalition government for a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building, Israeli political…

Netanyahu presents U.S. settlement plan to cabinet (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a U.S. plan to his cabinet on Sunday that would extend a freeze on West Bank settlements for 90 days in return…

Israel’s Lieberman denounces settlement boycott (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - Israel’s ultranationalist foreign minister Monday accused left-wing artists threatening to boycott a theater in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank of waging “cultural terrorism.”

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Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Palestinian man carries broken branches of an olive tree which farmers say was cut overnight by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar cut more than 50 olive trees overnight. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israel’s prime minister has been sounding out key Cabinet members on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements in hopes of keeping peace talks with…

Israeli PM weighing new settlement curbs (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Palestinian man carries broken branches of an olive tree which farmers say was cut overnight by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar cut more than 50 olive trees overnight. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israeli officials say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been sounding out key Cabinet ministers on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements but is encountering…

Palestinians back Abbas on settlement slowdown (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with the leading members of the PLO in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Abbas sought the backing of dozens of senior Palestinians on Saturday for his refusal to keep negotiating with Israel without a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - Dozens of senior Palestinians on Saturday backed President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to negotiate with Israel as long as it builds in West Bank settlements, dealing a new setback…

Palestinians say no talks without settlement curbs (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

Palestinians participate in a rally marking 10-years since the starting of the second Intifada, in Kafar Kana, in northern Israel, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. It has been 10-years since Palestinians began an uprising that swept away peace talks, triggered a ferocious reaction by the Jewish state and left thousands dead on both sides. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)AP - Senior Palestinian politicians on Saturday backed President Mahmoud Abbas’ demand to link peace talks to restrictions on Israeli settlement building, delivering a new setback to bogged down U.S.…

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