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The Palestinian elementary school, located in the Jinba cave village in the southern Hebron hills.
IDF closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank training zone

Civil Administration issues demolition order against the school, though residents have no access to any other.

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Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood.
IDF order in ’97 paved way for construction of flashpoint West Bank neighborhood

Military order came to light as part of state's request to delay the evacuation of the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El.

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White House - Biderman - 1.5.12
Obama doesn't need Israeli ex-officials to know Netanyahu doesn't want peace

Former Shin Bet chief Diskin wanted the whole world to note that contrary to the international campaign Israel is conducting the one who is refusing is Benjamin Netanyahu.

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  • Abbas: I choose Netanyahu as my partner for peace
Benzion Netanyahu
The shadow that Netanyahu's late father cast: The world is against us

Benzion Netanyahu taught the prime minister the value of being suspicious, not only of Israel's enemies, but also of friends abroad and the left at home.

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  • Benzion Netanyahu, father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dies at 102
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Illustration by Amos Biderman.
Israel's Ulpana neighborhood is built on years of land theft and forgery

The Beit El neighborhood, the right's new cause celebre, was established in 1999 during Ehud Barak's term as Prime Minister.

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  • Israel ministers to ask Supreme Court to postpone eviction of West Bank outpost
Amos Biderman
Sights that the 'flytilla' activists weren't allowed to see

To distance certain sights from the eyes of the world, the Israeli government has turned its international airport into a military outpost.

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  • European airlines cancel tickets of pro-Palestinian 'flytilla' activists
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  • Netanyahu is using Oslo Accords to annex more West Bank land
Amos Biderman
Netanyahu is using Oslo Accords to annex more West Bank land

Israel's political and security establishment, as well as the legal system, view Area C - spreading over 60 percent of the West Bank - as an integral part of the country.

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The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis.
Jerusalem Mayor aims to establish new settlement in East Jerusalem

About 200 new homes are being planned for the new neighborhood, known as Kidmat Zion, on a plot of land purchased by U.S. millionaire Irving Moskowitz.

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  • Descendants of grand mufti want to build peace center at razed Jerusalem hotel
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Christmas - AP - 25122011
Border Control / An unholy mess

Easter won't be so happy for those who can't worship in Jerusalem this year.

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Shepherd Hotel 1
Descendants of grand mufti want to build peace center at razed Jerusalem hotel

Descendents of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who led terror attacks on the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine and collaborated with the Nazis, seek to keep site of old Shepherd's Hotel from being used to house settlers; High Court denies their petition.

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Itamar outpost - Milrod - 30.3.12
Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion

Newly released maps indicate Civil Administration secretly setting aside additional land for Jewish settlements, presumably with the intention of expanding them.

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Amos Biderman
For Israel's opposition leaders, 'never' is never 'never'

What made Labor leader Yachimovich to toy with the idea that the government she described as an 'alien to the values of the Labor movement' could change its spots?

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settlements - Nir Kafri - October 22 2010
UN probe of settlement activity is a Palestinian warning sign to Israel

While a vote in the UN General Assembly isn’t equivalent to a vote in the Security Council, it will make it a lot harder for Netanyahu to claim that the West Bank isn’t occupied.

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  • Israel mulls ways to penalize PA in wake of UN human rights probe
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Netanyahu - Salman - 2011
Thanks to Netanyahu's babble, an attack on Iran will inflame global anti-Semitism

The State of Israel, which was established as a haven for Jews from those who hate it, may instead wind up becoming a threat to Jews.

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Barack, Netanyahu, Iron Dome
Netanyahu uses Holocaust references to blur the injustices of the occupation

PM should know that for a generation that did not live through the Holocaust, the scent of increasingly more expensive oil is more powerful than the scent of the gas chambers.

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  • Netanyahu in AIPAC speech: Israel cannot afford to wait much longer on Iran
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Amos Biderman - 06032012
The highway robbery of Palestinians in Area C

A wrong and winding road east of Bethlehem exemplifies Israel's twisted priorities in Area C.

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Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat - AP - Feb. 6, 2010
Palestinian negotiator: Israel presented no position or offer in Amman talks

Palestinian negotiator says Israel did not present any positions at meetings - just a list of issues for discussion.

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  • In Jordan talks, Netanyahu sought to annex settlement blocs but not Jordan Valley
Amos Biderman - 21022012
Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish outposts remains untouched

Israel's eagerness to demolish renewable energy installations in a West Bank village is seen as an ugly riposte to the European Union.

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It may be best to talk to Iran before launching a strike

For dialogue with Tehran to succeed, the insolent tone and threatening language of the Israeli government spokespeople and their neoconservative friends in the United States must be toned down.

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Map of Area C and Area B near Amona
West Bank outposts spreading into Area B, in violation of Oslo Accords

Area B is defined as land under Palestinian civil control and Israeli military control, according to Oslo Accords

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Netanyahu, Abbas, Obama
Abbas and Obama should not expect a helping hand from Netanyahu

The Israeli prime minister is the only one who can boost the electoral chances of both Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas. Don't hold your breath.

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Argentina urges greater involvement in Mideast peace

Argentine President announces decision at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, during meeting with delegates from the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum.

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Kirchner - Reuters - February 7, 2012
Argentine President calls for regional involvement in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner meets with Israeli-Palestinian delegation Peace NGO Forum and announces Argentina will spearhead the Latin American role in reinvigorating the peace process.

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Amos Biderman - 07022012
Jews who are malicious to those who help us

Testimony from Yitzhak Navon and Ariel Sharon was not enough to prompt the state to give back the land it seized from an Arab man who helped Israel in 1948.

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Amos Biderman -  31012012
Newt Gingrich's flip-flopping on the Middle East

The Zionist declarations intoned by the controversial southern politicians have little effect on elderly Jewish voters.

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