Michael Several / Palestine-Israel Journal (2011)
Describes how tax-exempt organizations in the United States support Israeli settlements and what can be done to end
this practice. Read More >
Dear Friend,
From where we sit as longtime activists in Israel's struggle to define who she is, this past summer was an astonishing time. What began as a protest over the price of cottage cheese grew into mass demonstrations across Israel against the rising cost of living and our increasingly inadequate social welfare system.
The extremist settlers call it "Price Tag." We have always called it by its proper name: Terrorism.
Now, Israel's Shin Bet, the IDF's top brass and Israeli Cabinet members agree with us. On Monday, shortly after a mosque was torched in an Israeli-Arab village in the Galilee and "Price Tag" graffiti was found nearby, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, a member of the extreme right wing Yisrael Beitenu Party, told an Israel Radio reporter that he prefers not to use the perpetrators self-serving jargon. "This is an act of terrorism," he said.
The problem is that largely because of law enforcement negligence, a terror campaign that has been raging in the West Bank for at least three years, has now mushroomed into a widespread phenomenon - both in the West Bank and in Israel proper - that targets not only West Bank Palestinians but also Israeli Arab citizens, Israeli peace activists and Israeli law enforcement officers.
Gadi Taub | Yale University Press (2011)
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The New York Times (September 2011)
A look at Ariel, a large settlement deep in the West Bank that is emblematic of the conflict's flash points. Part
of the New York Times video series "Challenges
in Defining an Israeli-Palestinian Border." (7:31) Watch >
The New York Times (2011)
Overview of the borders issue and related points of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Includes a
special focus on the Jordan Valley. Part of the NY Times video series "Challenges
in Defining an Israeli-Palestinian Border." (7:01) Watch >
Americans for Peace Now (2011)
APN's Lara Friedman provides an outline of the history of US policy regarding the status of Jerusalem. Includes
dates, statements, and descriptions of relevant actions by US government bodies and officials. Read More >
The New York Times (2012)
Overview of Jerusalem as it pertains to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Residents, experts, and notable figures
are interviewed. (8:08) Read More >
Hagit Ofran is Director of the Israeli Peace Now movement;s Settlement Watch Project. (7/19/11) There is a
sense of outrage within the Israeli public following the passing of "the boycott law" in the Knesset last week. The law
allows any individual or institution who faces possible damage as a result of any person's call for boycott settlement
products to sue that person. Evidence of actual damage will not be required. Organizations calling for such boycott
could lose their legal standing as non profit organization.
Americans for Peace Now (2011)
APN's honest assessment of the "defensibility" of borders based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed upon land
swaps. PDF >