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Report: Jewish Settlement in East Jerusalem – a Threat to Middle East Peace Negotiations

by Haitham Sabbah November 17, 2010

New research by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies indicates that Jewish settlement in Sheikh Jarrah is against Israel’s interests and has the potential to harm future Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Jewish settlement in the heart of Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem has the potential to threaten the advancement of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, according to a new report published by The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

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Israeli Settlers Threaten Sheikh Jarrah

by Stephen Lendman November 13, 2010

A predominantly East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood, it’s home to about 2,800 Palestinians as well as diplomatic missions and well-known landmarks. However, because of its strategic location, settlers want it, and have encroached for years. So far, over 60 Palestinian families have been dispossessed. Another 500 are at risk. What began incrementally has now intensified through forced evictions, at times involving home demolitions and state-sponsored violence. Sheikh Jarrah areas below have been especially affected.

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Jerusalem or Gaza – where is it worse to be Palestinian?

by Amira Hass September 13, 2010

Is it the isolation and insulation that Israel has imposed on Gaza, or the cynicism with which the decision makers continue to turn the population of East Jerusalem into welfare clients and slum dwellers, and then pride themselves of the national insurance payments they grant them? By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Graduates [...]

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Israeli Zionists Shout ‘Hitler Was Right!’

by Haitham Sabbah February 8, 2010

On Friday 25-12-09, about 250 demonstrators (Israeli peace activists) were walking and drumming down Hanevi’im st. in Jerusalem, as part of a weekly non-violent demonstration against the occupation of Palestinian houses by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian Neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah (in East Jerusalem). These are some of the responses they encountered on the way. [...]

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Danger: Popular struggle

by Amira Hass December 23, 2009

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, police, and civil and military judges. They have found the true enemy [...]

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Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem a real threat to peace

by SR Editor December 20, 2009

By Yudith Oppenheimer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz JERUSALEM – In the last few weeks, six more Palestinian families received notices that they are to be evicted from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. And once again we can expect to witness scenes that have by now become almost routine: settlers [...]

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Ottoman Archives Show Land Deeds Forged

by Jonathan Cook March 29, 2009

By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A legal battle being waged by Palestinian families to stop the takeover of their neighbourhood in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers has received a major fillip from the recent souring of relations between Israel and Turkey. After the Israeli army’s assault on the Gaza Strip in [...]

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