Construction of Har Homa, an illegal Israeli settlement in Bethlehem [MaanImages]
BETHLEHEM --Though Israel's army was ordered to issue a temporary freeze order on West Bank settlement construction on Thursday, reports from the Israeli press revealed permits were granted for 28 new public buildings.
The freeze [...]
Israeli construction in Gilo, an ever-expanding illegal settler-colony built on stolen Palestinian land. The hill on which this illegal settlement is built was a green orchard before the Zionist invaders torn up the fruit trees, flattened the top of the hill and built their illegal settlement [...]
By Ramzy Baroud
When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband uttered a few words regarding the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, many wanted to believe that London was taking a sharp stance against Israel’s continued violations of international law. Alas, they were wrong.
The fact [...]
By John V. Whitbeck
In the wake of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s public praise for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s 'unprecedented' attitude toward continued Israeli settlement expansion, Saeb Erakat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, calmly rolled out a verbal bombshell at a November 4 press [...]
