Tag: Israeli settlement

"If Israel’s government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the U.S. should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told the New York Times in a recent survey of candidates' policy positions.

There were strong reactions to the expected US declaration on the legality of Jewish settlement activity in Judea and Samaria.

There are over 200 ongoing territorial disputes worldwide, yet the ECJ has only offered a single ruling - related to the Jewish people.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz: "We will be in of control of the envelope around the fence, and the level of terror will drop in the Gaza Strip, as pragmatic forces will rise."

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."

Two incidents of violence and vandalism by TIPH observers against Jews were exposed on video in the past week.

Yesh Din is working in partnership with Breaking the Silence and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I).

Attorney Marganit Levy, representing the Justice Ministry, told the committee: "The Administrative Affairs Court has more ability than the High Court of Justice to clarify factual matters."

"Today, twenty years since the civilian settlement was established at an important strategic point, we are advancing one more step towards normalization and equal rights for the citizens of Judea and Samaria."

Israel wishes to use the legal concept of "market regulation" for the first time since 1967 in regard to Israeli settlers who purchased private Arab land in Judea and Samaria.

Retiring Justice Salim Joubran ruled that according to International Law it is permissible to impound lands in favor of the Israeli population in Judea and Samaria, provided it is done reasonably.

In recent days, the Regavim movement discovered heavy machinery belonging to the PA paving a highway along the old Turkish railway tracks, as well as constructing new buildings near the old Turkish railroad station.

The combination of an Arab man standing next to bulldozer and the call to slaughter immediately suggested to Police that the author was going out on a ramming attack against Israeli civilians.

It is suspected that the terror cell also blew up a bomb in Gush Etzion while the Prime Minister was visiting this week.

The ruling was the second defeat for "Palestinian" supporters in the US courts in recent months.

The government's response was submitted by attorney Harel Arnon, after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit had refused to represent the government in this case.

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.

While the law prevents enforcement against 2,000 structures belonging to Israelis, it is also making it difficult for the authorities and the IDF to act against more than 10,000 illegal Arab structures.

The legal owners are planning to sneak back into Machpelah House in the coming weeks, sans coordination with the powers that be, and let's see Netanyahu and Liberman evicting them from their homes in the UNESCO sanctioned Palestinian heritage site.

'In the face of Palestinian criminals, the State of Israel has no teeth.'

Netanyahu, who left the Sharon government half an hour before the troops descended on the 8,600 Jewish residents of Gush Katif, back in 2005, has since managed to wiggle his way out of confrontational situations by making promises to evicted settlers – promises he very rarely kept, usually after concentrated public shaming.

The ultimate "deal" which must include Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

“Palestinians themselves don't even have civil rights under Palestinian rule. What do you expect would happen to Jews?"

The Americans inserted the clause into the document, but it was eventually removed under pressure from Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) and senior Likud officials.

Weddings and more weddings!

The Orot Etzion Boys School in Efrat was selected as the best school in Israel this year.

Regavim argues there's no reason to transfer any part of Area C to the Palestinian Authority when their population numbers are clearly inflated.

'At no point in history was Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria subject to Palestinian Arab sovereignty.'

Peace Now reports remind us of the joke about the Jewish guy reading Der Stürmer in 1936 Berlin.

Ari & Jeremy are hosting an internationally live-streamed mega-celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Jewish return to Judea, the first day of the 6 Day War, Sunday May 21st, the 25th of Iyar.