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- "It's the Settlements, Stupid!" - Asserting that in the context of Camp David, defenders of Barak never produced maps showing Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied territories, and that the continuing expansion of those settlements prevents peace.
www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=259
- Across the Mideast divide: Israeli settlements a concern - Detailing the observations of a Lutheran minister who, after touring Israel and the occupied territories, does not see peace as possible until Israel ends its military incursions, and more importantly its settlements.
www.nashuatelegraph.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&SectionID=25&ArticleID=60438&SubSectionID=354
- As usual, policy is set by the settlers - Describing how Israel's escalated construction of settlements, bypass roads, and the brazenly illegal conduct of settlers against Palestinian people and property raise questions about the legitimacy of armed resistance against Israel's occupation.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=170397
- Barak torn two ways by West Bank settlements - Describing the choices faced by Israel's government in relation to forty-two new 'outpost' settlements created in the occupied territories with the goal of impeding the return of land to the Palestinians.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,203127,00.html
- Building Settlements, Killing Peace - Israeli peace activist Ran HaCohen asserts that the settlements are the occupation.
www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h052601.html
- Eye on Palestine - Detailed monitoring of Israel's settlement activity on the occupied West Bank.
www.arij.org/paleye
- Fear and violence in Hebron - Observing that Israel, for all of its skill in catching Palestinian terrorists, and for all of its demands that the shattered Palestinian Authority control its own people, does essentially nothing to control violent and illegal acts by settlers.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=192170
- Giving up the settlements is cheaper than you think - An advisor to Israel's labor party details that Israel's settlements are the central obstacle to peace, both preventing a viable Palestinian state and provoking violence, and that Israel could easily remove problematic settlements
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=160404
- Homes Lost and Found on Hill Where an Israeli Project Rises - Describing the mixed feelings of Palestinian workers, forced by economic circumstance to help build what they see as a massive illegal Israeli settlement built on their stolen land, and the international community's disinterest in this once controvercial project. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/international/middleeast/11SETT.html
- How 90 Peruvians became the latest Jewish settlers - Describing how Israeli extremist rabbis imported Peruvians, mostly Indians, to populate a settlement in the occupied West Bank, their peculiar conceptions of Judaism, and their prejudice toward Arabs and the occupation.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,770315,00.html
- Israel fortifies illegal settlement - Describing the seizure of Palestinian lands, and the destruction of homes, by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, as part of an expansion of the Hebron settlement.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,602820,00.html
- Israel has seized 42% of West Bank, report says - Describing a human rights report detailing the vast areas of the occupied West Bank now reserved exclusively for the use of the residents of Israel's illegal settlements, and the techniques used by Israel to deprive Palestinians of their lands.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,715564,00.html
- Israeli group blasts design of settlements - Presenting the expression of an Israeli human rights group that Israel has 'stolen' tens of thousands of acres of Palestinian land for its illegal settlements in the occupied territories, and Israel's responses.
www.sptimes.com/2002/05/14/Worldandnation/Israeli_group_blasts_.shtml
- Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories - Quotations from Israeli Politicians and world leaders on the nature and purpose of the settlements.
www.nimn.org/settlements/quotations.html
- Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories - An analysis of the history and politics behind Israel's settlements in the Palestinian territories, and their status under international law.
www.fmep.org/reports/2002/sr0203.html
- Israeli settlers rampage after blood-soaked week - Describing a rampage of vandalism and murder by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, and observing the diplomatic impasse resulting from the policies of the Sharon government.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=307754
- Land Grab: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank - Describing how Israel's illegal settlements now control more than forty percent of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, the heavy government subsidization of the settlements, and the human rights conflicts they cause.
www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2002/020513.asp
- Land is the issue. Land is confiscated, stolen, kept - Describing Israel's flat refusal to consider agreeing to a freeze on the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied territories, and the associated confiscation of Palestinian lands.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,494505,00.html
- Lines in the Sand - Detailing the analysis by an Israeli architect of the illegal settlements in the occupied territories, how the settlements are designed to facilitate the occupation, and how the author's invitation to an international conference was revoked when the ramifications of his analysis became apparent.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,762659,00.html
- Monitoring Israeli Colonization Activity (ARIJ) - Case studies of sieges, attacks, closures, demolitions and other Israeli actions in the West Bank and Gaza, updated each month.
www.poica.org/casestudies/casestudies.htm
- NIS 1.1 billion more to protect the settlements - Observing the financial cost of defending Israel's settlements in the occupied terrotiries, and commenting that the present government appears intent on pressing ahead with a settlement expansion program previously deemed to undermine any chance of peace.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=178218
- PM may be signalling vision of future borders - Describing controversy over a segment of Ariel Sharon's proposed security fence which would effectively annex twenty-two percent of the occupied West Bank to Israel, despite there being absolutely no security problems in that region.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179710
- PM urged to enforce law on Hebron settlers - Describing how Israeli security officials are asking for permission to finally be able to enforce the law against settlers in Hebron, who routinely vandalize property and evict Palestinians from their homes and business in the illegal expansion of their settlement.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=196142
- PM won't discuss removing settlements - Describing Ariel Sharon's announcement that he will not permit Knesset discussion of possible removal of Israeli settlements from the occupied territories before the October, 2003 elections, and his hostility to a U.N. envoy who criticized Israel for impeding of humanitarian aid efforts.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=154280
- Powell says settlements will be on agenda this week with Israeli prime minister - Describing Colin Powell's desire to obtain a freeze in Israel's illegal construction of settlements in the occupied territories, contrasted with Condoleezza Rice's desire to disregard the expansion of settlements under Ariel Sharon.
www.nj.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0455_BC_US-Mideast&&news&newsflash-washington
- Rabin is still Sharon's antithesis - Suggesting that significant differences exist between Israel's political left and right in policy toward its illegal settlements in the occupied territories, with the Sharon government seeking to cement them permanently in place.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=187478
- Sacrificing a few outposts to gain a lot more - Analyzing Israel's policy toward 'outpost settlements' in the occupied territories, illegal even under Israeli law, observing that the government's policy of defending and ultimately legitimizing them has resulted in the quadrupling of their number over the past three years.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179759
- Settlements with two families - Describing the enormous resources Israel pours into defending its sparsely populated settlements in the occupied Gaza strip, and associated security concerns.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=185957
- Sharon's Stealth Plan - Describing how despite the current conflict, Israel's Sharon government has launched massive new construction efforts in the occupied Palestinian territories, suggesting that Sharon is trying to make a two state solution impossible.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41840-2002Jul21.html
- Stop The Settlements - Criticizing Israel's settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territories as illegal under international law, discriminatory, an obstruction to peace, and displacing the indigenous Palestinian population.
www.geocities.com/stopthesettlements
- The defense minister and the case of the disappearing outposts - Describing how, despite the Sharon government's explicit promises to dismantle certain illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, built on Palestinian land, almost nothing has been done.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=185460
- The Sky's the Limit - Describing how, despite their being recognized as an obstacle to peace, Israel is massively expanding its illegal settlements in the occupied territories, and enticing new residents through enormous subsidies and tax breaks.
www.msnbc.com/news/753693.asp?cp1=1
- They come here to live... and, if God wills it, to die - Describing Israel's massive expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories in violation of the Oslo Accords, and the financial and ideological motives that drive Israelis to move into the settlements despite the obvious danger.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,742359,00.html
- Yesha sacrifices trailers in a larger game - Describing the shell game played by Israeli settlers, as they 'surrender' a small number of vacant illegal outpost settlements in order to maintain many others with the full consent and protection of the government of Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=181786
- Zionism or colonialism? - Suggesting that the stranglehold of Israel's settlements in the occupied territories will ultimately erode the moral basis of Zionism, and expressing concern over how some settler schools are openly teaching children to hate all Palestinians and even to desire their deaths.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=180995
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