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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the press in front of construction in the Har Homa settlement in Jerusalem, March 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The endgame lurking behind Netanyahu’s new settlement policy

Netanyahu’s new settlement policy doesn’t just pave the way for massive construction in the West Bank — it also, with the blessing of a right-wing U.S. president, risks freezing Palestinians out of the diplomatic process entirely. By Mitchell Plitnick On March 30, the Israeli government announced that it had approved the first new settlement in…

By +972 Magazine April 13, 2017

Right-wing Israeli settlers demonstrate after marching from Ma'aleh Adumim settlement to the E1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, during a protest calling for an expansion of Jewish settlements in E1, West Bank, February 13, 2014. (Activestills)

Israeli settlements have created a ‘state within a state’

Not only physical settler violence goes largely unpunished — the structural violence of those driving the settlement enterprise, in the form of open land theft and everything it entails, also goes largely unaddressed. What keeps the long arm of the law at bay? A primetime investigative news program revealed to all of Israel last week widespread…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth February 10, 2016

An Israeli tramway security guard, stabbed by two Palestinian boys, is wheeled away on a stretcher at the scene of the assault at a tramway station in the settlement neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev in annexed East Jerusalem on November 10, 2015. One of the Palestinian boys, a minor, was shot and wounded while the other was arrested. The security guard was wounded and taken to hospital.

Five killed in Tel Aviv, West Bank attacks

Violence reignites across Israel-Palestine on Thursday as four Israelis and one Palestinian are killed in two separate attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank. The two attackers, both West Bank Palestinians, are apprehended. Four Israelis and one Palestinian were killed in two separate attacks on both sides of the Green Line Thursday afternoon. Several…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 19, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Bar-Ilan University. (Photo Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

There is no reason to trust Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu can backpedal all he wants, but now it is clear even to his biggest champions that he is no longer interested in the two-state solution. Now it’s up to the White House to take a stand. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s landslide election victory on Tuesday stunned even the biggest pessimists. What looked like a possible…

By Edo Konrad March 19, 2015

Palestinian construction workers in an Israeli settlement (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

There’s no nice way of building settlements in occupied territory

Those familiar with the system know that as long as settlement construction continues, the abuse and intimidation of the Palestinian civilian population will be maintained. By Gerard Horton UNICEF, the UN body tasked with providing humanitarian aid to children in developing countries, recently issued an update on the progress made regarding the treatment of minors…

By +972 Magazine March 3, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives media statement regarding the kidnapping of the three teenagers. (photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Israeli right demands punitive measures against Palestinians following abductees’ murder

Palestinian teenager killed in clashes in Jenin while Israeli Air Force strikes over 30 targets in Gaza. Hamas still denies involvement in the deadly kidnapping. In response to the murder of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped two weeks ago, the Israeli Air Force struck 34 targets in Gaza Tuesday night, while four rockets were fired into…

By Edo Konrad July 1, 2014

Settlement construction in Gilo, January 21, 2010. (Photo: Activestills.org)

Housing Ministry publishes massive settlement plan, Netanyahu orders review

*POST UPDATED BELOW* Israel’s Ministry of Housing and Construction (run by Jewish Home MK Uri Ariel, who lives in a West Bank settlement) published tenders last week for 20,000 new settlements units, including a tender to build 1,200 units in the southern part of the highly controversial E-1 area, Haaretz (Hebrew) reported Tuesday. According to…

By Mairav Zonszein November 12, 2013

U.S. and Israeli flags (flickr/Josh.ev9/CC by SA 2.0)

What American Jews think: Eight notes

Eight interesting notes from Pew Research’s Portrait of American Jewry, published on Tuesday. The most widely reported finding from a Pew survey on American Jewry released yesterday was that American Jews are increasingly secular. Close behind were reports on the number of American Jews who have Christmas trees in their homes. Below are some interesting…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 2, 2013

Congressman Keith Ellison to +972: ‘The U.S. may not be able to mediate this dispute’

“It has occurred to me that maybe the U.S. is not capable of mediating this dispute,” Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) told +972 Magazine this week, in response to a question on the failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reach a comprehensive peace deal after 20 years of U.S. mediated talks. “It’s hard to mediate something…

By Ami Kaufman September 13, 2013