Depriving Palestinians in the West Bank

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2010 Even while it builds settlements on Palestinian territory, Israel is actively preventing Palestinian development in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem by denying basic infrastructure such as electricity and running water to Palestinian communities, according to a report from the group Human Rights Watch. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Offers F-35s for Extension of Settlement Freeze

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2010 Although the U.S. never has been a neutral arbiter in the Middle East, it's still surprising that Washington has now reportedly promised Israel a long-term security agreement -- including 20 F-35 fighter jets and a pledge to veto any damaging U.N. resolution -- in exchange for a 90-day extension of the Israeli freeze on constructing settlements in the West Bank. Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israel Offers Settlement Freeze … With Strings Attached

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a public offer that Israel will again put a hold on building settlements in the West Bank if Palestinians officially recognize Israel as a Jewish state, according to the BBC. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Netanyahu Urges Settler Restraint

Staff / Truthdig Sep 26, 2010 With a 10-month moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank about to expire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging Israeli settlers to show restraint. President Barack Obama has prodded Israel to extend the moratorium, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says Israel must choose between peace and the continuation of Jewish settlements. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israeli Navy Kills Gaza Fisherman

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2010 Just days after an Israeli private security guard killed a Palestinian man and wounded four others, the Israeli navy fired upon a Palestinian fishing boat near Gaza and killed one fisherman. --JCL Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Theatrical Resistance

Staff / Truthdig Aug 29, 2010 It may be obvious to some, but Palestinians aren't the only people upset about Israel's settlement activity. More than 60 Israeli theater professionals have joined a boycott against a new West Bank cultural center in Ariel, an Israeli settlement 12.5 miles within Palestinian territory. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israel and Palestine Talks, Take 154*

Staff / Truthdig Aug 20, 2010 For the first time in 20 months, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to resume direct negotiations, scheduled for Sept. 2 in Washington, to talk about such thorny things as Israeli settlement activity, the borders of a future Palestinian state, and the right of Palestinian exiles to return to their homeland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AIG Settles for $725 Million

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2010 American International Group, 80 percent owned by the U.S. government, has announced it will pay out $725 million in a settlement of a securities fraud lawsuit, begun in 2004, that accused the insurance Gargantua of accounting fraud and stock manipulation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abbas Boosts Boycott of Settlement Goods

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2010 A boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank gained some heft Saturday when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threw his executive weight behind the campaign, calling on all Palestinians to stop buying settlement-made products. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jerusalem Jews Tell Elie Wiesel to Get Real

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2010 You may recall Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s letter urging President Barack Obama to lay off of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem. A group of prominent intellectuals who actually live in the city have written their own withering response, calling Wiesel’s letter a fantasy “replete with factual errors and false representations.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

PLO Opens Way for Negotiations

Staff / Truthdig May 8, 2010 The Palestinian Liberation Organization has approved indirect talks with Israel, opening the door for the first peace negotiations in a year and a half. One may remember the "proximity talks" that fizzled in March when Israel unexpectedly announced an expansion of illegal settlement plans in East Jerusalem. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Zionism Gets a Turbo Boost

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2010 Some Israeli settlers are taking Zionism to a whole new level. Some 200 settlers, living illegally on occupied Palestinian land, marched on the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem to assert their supposed right to live on occupied land as well as to affirm "Jewish sovereignty over the whole city." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )