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Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories Vol. 24 No. 2 | March-April 2014

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THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS ONE SETTLEMENT BLOC

Only hours before U.S. president Barack Obama’s March 3, 2014 White House meeting with Israel prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported that the number of construction starts in West Bank settlements had more than doubled in 2013 to 2,534 units, which is more construction than took place in Tel Aviv.

TO OUR READERS

As U.S.-sponsored peace talks are near collapse, John Kerry has blamed Israel most harshly. But officials in the U.S. cast equal blame on the Palestinian Authority’s “unilateral” decision to join fifteen UN human rights and other treaties as another reason for the breakdown.

PALESTINE NEVER EXISTED AND NEVER WILL

MAP: SETTLEMENT EXPANSION EAST JERUSALEM, 2010-2013

PALESTINIAN VILLAGERS ON THE FRONT LINES

SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ANNOUNCEMENTS, 2014

EU RAISES ALARM ON JERUSALEM

BUILDING PERMITS, JERUSALEM (2000-March 2013)

BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED, EAST JERUSALEM SETTLEMENTS, 2000-March 2013

TENDERS ISSUED, EAST JERUSALEM, 2006-2013 SETTLEMENT TIMELINE November 1, 2013 - January 6, 2014

ISRAEL’S OPPOSITION SPEAKS

WEST BANK CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

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