By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. administration is said to be pressuring Israel's coalition government to nix or minimize the plan.
By Josh Hasten
A tour of the contested area reveals heated opinions from Jewish and Arab residents on the future of the designated construction corridor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The construction plan, which will effectively connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem, was frozen by Netanyahu for years following international criticism that it would harm a prospective Palestinian state.
By JNi.Media
During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."
By JNi.Media
The judges – Esther Hayut, Uzi Fogelman and Daphne Barak-Erez – favored the Bedouin cause and ordered the Civil Administration to show up in court by September 3 to respond to the claims of contempt.
Iran, Syria and the Arabs are on the list to be discussed.
"The EU works with the Palestinian Authority to develop Area C and support the Palestinian presence there", stated EU Representative Ralph Tarraf.
The EU is trying to create illegal Arab settlements on the ground.
The PA needs E1 to choke Jerusalem on 3 sides.
Israel talks with building blocks. The Palestinian Authority throws them.
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
On Saturday, Palestinians tried to set up another illegal outpost. This latest attempt was in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Maskiot. Border Police took down the 19 tents. No Arabs were arrested, and injuries were reported on either side. Last week, Arabs set up an illegal outpost in E1, near Maaleh Adumim, which […]
Israeli security forces have begun removal of the illegal Arab tent encampment in E1, the area between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem. Last week, Israel security forces were taken by surprise by an Arab initiative to try to illegally settle on the E1 location, and create facts on the ground. At the time, the Israeli Supreme […]
During the early hours of Sunday morning, the Israeli police successfully managed to evacuate, without violence, 100 Arab activists/provocateurs who entered the E1 area between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim and set up an illegal tent camp, claiming the area as a new Arab village. The government's plan to evacuate the activists on Friday was derailed […]
The biggest obstacle to peace, of course, is the Palestinian intention to establish an Arab state from the river to the sea.
What would I say to this news agency? This is my home - we have made the desert bloom, as we were promised.
The Arabs aren't accepting the pre-1967 borders, they are simply rejecting the post-1967 borders.
Come the next American pressure, Netanyahu will fold.
Folks, look at a map. Do you see the “West Bank” cut in two? I don’t either.
The diplomatic "peace process," worthless though it may have been, died on November 29, 2012 at the hands of Mahmoud Abbas.
On Wednesday, the Civil Administration Planning Council rushed through approval on the plan to build 3000 apartments in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim.
It's all about a mountain that sits between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem.
The E-1 area was always viewed by Israel and the U.S. as an area which would remain in Jewish hands.