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PM faces party revolt over settlement deal with U.S.

Top Likud Mks, including government ministers, sign letter to Netanyahu condemning plans for new West Bank building freeze.

by Jonathan Lis 17 comments

Likud rebels gathering Knesset signatures for anti-freeze protest letter

Right-wing Knesset members demand that Netanyahu fulfill promises he made to them that West Bank building will not be frozen again.

by Jonathan Lis 17 comments

'Palestinians will give U.S. more time to relaunch peace talks'

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, in Washington, says 'the key is in Netanyahu's hands. The choice is his: settlements or peace.'

by Reuters 41 comments

Clinton: Two-state solution still possible for Israel, Palestinians

U.S. Secretary of State tells U.S. task force on Palestine that sides have not abandoned peace process, adds position on West Bank settlements 'has not changed'.

by Natasha Mozgovaya 0 comments

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Settlements are their religion

There is no doubt about it: The ultra-Orthodox factions have become the spearhead of the settlement enterprise over the Green Line, and they are busy competing with one another over which of them will lead it.

by Uzi Benziman 0 comments

The right to explode in anger

It is impossible to predict how Palestinians will interpret warnings over settlement construction, whether they will see them as a signal that they have the right to explode in anger once again over their continuing dispossession from their lands and future.

by Amira Hass 0 comments

A tiny diplomatic crack

A freeze in construction is not meant to satisfy the United States as having achieved a diplomatic victory, or to be seen as a personal achievement by its president. Netanyahu opened a tiny diplomatic crack, but it is too little too late.

Haaretz Editorial 0 comments

David Makovsky / Obama and Netanyahu: Lessons of 2009

Netanyahu's declaration of a settlement freeze ends the first chapter of U.S.-Israel relations under Obama.

by David Makovsky 0 comments

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