By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"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.
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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."
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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.
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Yesh Din is working in partnership with Breaking the Silence and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I).
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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."
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"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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The government's response was submitted by attorney Harel Arnon, after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit had refused to represent the government in this case.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'In the face of Palestinian criminals, the State of Israel has no teeth.'
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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?"
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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.
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'At no point in history was Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria subject to Palestinian Arab sovereignty.'
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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.
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The event in Basel was secured by local undercover police officers due to fears that Islamic and BDS activists were planning to disturb the event.
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The 'West Bank' can easily be reclaimed as part of the Zionist narrative, as it describes a political reality both before and after 1967.
Independence & establishing new Jewish towns in the Shomron and Judea.
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Lempert is planning to leave after Palestinian Authority Charmian Mahmoud Abbas' May 3 meeting with Trump.
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'We made it clear that any approval of a freeze, including outside the blocks, is a red line for us and we would not continue to sit in the government in such a case.'
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria," said Rabbi Ben Dahan.
The stone throwing was between Neve Daniel and Efrat.
The policies of discrimination against Jewish residents by the US Consulate in Jerusalem.
Professor Kontorovich of Northwestern University, an expert on International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict, gives his take on Israeli settlements.
'The injustice we have suffered here is that we never even got our day in court.'
By Josh Hasten
Overnight, their home became 'illegal'.
Ideas exploring Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria were discussed and debated at the fourth annual Sovereignty Conference in Jerusalem.
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The growth rate would have been even higher were it not for the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria.
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Supreme Court President Justice Miriam Na'or makes sure the cases that deal with settlements would usually receive panels with an anti-settlement majority.
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
Women in Green Co-Founder Nadia Matar speaks with Joshua Hasten on Israel Uncensored about their 4th annual Sovereignty Conference on strategies towards applying Israeli sovereignty over the communities of Judea and Samaria.
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Honenu says it is extremely likely the Arabs were accompanied by undercover police or Mistaravim (agents disguised as Arabs), and that police, with the cooperation of the Arabs, staged a provocation.
For the first time ever, a number of settlement leaders have been invited to a US presidential inauguration.
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In 1994 US envoy to the UN Madeleine Albright insisted on a paragraph-by-paragraph UNSC vote, to edit out language saying Jerusalem was occupied territory.
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'Had Australia been a member of the Security Council, it would not have supported last Friday's resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.'
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'John Kerry is a stain on American foreign policy who is ignorant of the issues.'
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The Netiv HaAvot neighborhood of Elazar was built in 2001 on land which was later claimed–with the urging and support of Peace Now–by the Mussa family of al-Khader, near Bethlehem.
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Bennett promised that next the government will impose Israeli sovereignty on the town of Ma'ale Adumim, creating an urban corridor that eliminates any chance for a future contiguous Palestinian State.
How & where does this guy get his 'intelligence'?
Israel must annex Judea & Samaria.
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Should the new bill be submitted without the retroactive application to Amona, Habayit Hayehudi politicians will be expected to prevent clashes between the residents and security forces.
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
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Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said, with noted condescension, "If the Israeli right knows what Trump position regarding Israel is, I believe they know more than Trump does."
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The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
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On Wednesday, the Jewish Federations of North America board of trustees voted to overturn its policy barring its missions from visiting Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
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Liberman said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was not seeking peace, and said he incited violence rather than work against it.
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The meeting was called by member states Egypt, Venezuela, Malaysia, Senegal and Angola, and was pushed by the PA delegation.
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UN secretary general’s special advisor on sport Wilfried Lemke has been lobbying on behalf of Rajoub, and sent FIFA a letter advising that all Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is illegal, which includes Jewish soccer teams.
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Kerry responded by saying the Administration has not yet made its decision on this matter — which is probably what he would have said if he didn't want an Obama anti-Israel move to hit the news before the election.
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Justice Minister Tzipi Livni recommended that the next government (which she expected to head) dismantle the division by blocking its state budget. Without a budget, the division was expected to wither and die.
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On Friday, DOS Press Director Elizabeth Trudeau rebutted Netanyahu's accusation, although a careful reading of her attack on the PM reveals she didn't really answer his main argument.
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We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.
Netanyahu said, "The UN envoy to the Middle East’s remarks to the Security Council distort history and international law and drive peace even further away."
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He failed to mention the arrests and indictments by Israel of an international charity administrator and a UNDP employee, who confessed to directing millions of dollars to Hamas — which is why all those ruined buildings are yet to be rebuilt.
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The AG is obviously feeling that he can't go to battle against a clear Supreme Court ruling to demolish Amona.
Arabs and Israelis met on Tuesday evening at the library of the Etzion-bloc community of Efrat to learn about the history of Jewish-Arab relations in the region.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“Every moment that we have water, I thank God.”
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"Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria have been experiencing unique security realities on a daily basis because of their geographic location and the quality of life in the area."
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The re-mapping effort of those 62 thousand hectares constitutes a significant increase in the rate of this work, compared with only 20 thousand hectares re-mapped in 2014 and 13 thousand in 2013.
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Kulanu's vagaries in the coming weeks should be viewed in the context of a party on its way to extinction attempting to soar once more by flapping its arms with great vigor.
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The Israel Hayom Sunday article is an attempt to blame the Germans for the February faux pas.
She also said the Palestinians must condemn "everything constituting the support of terror."
IDF and police are using a heavy hand against terror. Palestinian Authority media claim two killed and hundreds wounded.
An Oxford University professor's new book uncovers what most Israelis know - that the Americans are not "Wild West" cowboys.
The President announced he will ignore the letter of the law he just signed because it protects Judea and Samaria.
Israel uprooted more than 1,000 that Arabs planted in a land grab of state land in western Gush Etzion.
The PA and leftists lost twice in US courts, which threw out suits for libel and a claim against settlers' "terrorist attacks."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel police announced Thursday that the alleged “price tag” attack in the Arab village of Kusra last week was fabricated and staged by Arabs for propaganda purposes. Police had received a report of six burned cars in the village of Kusra, located in Samaria, and blue Israeli identification card was found on site. The media […]
Getting at the truth of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is a work in progress and this is certainly a story with legs. Why U.S. personnel were not given adequate protection despite danger signals for weeks prior and why the Obama administration, in the face of intelligence information to the contrary, downplayed any terrorist dimension in the assault, urging instead that the attackers were ordinary Muslims upset about an anti-Muhammad video, is sure to be the focus of intense congressional attention.
By JTA
At the annual ceremony in memory of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, President Shimon Peres called Judea and Samaria settlements a threat to Israel.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The State Dept. press director Patrick Ventrell said, "We’ve seen the reports ... but we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity."