Release of Palestinian Prisoners Not a License for Creeping Annexation - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Clovis Maksoud

Clovis Maksoud

Oct 30, 2013

Palestinian labourers work on a construction site in Ramat Shlomo, a religious Jewish settlement in an area of the occupied West Bank Israel annexed to Jerusalem October 30, 2013. Israel announced plans on Wednesday to build hundreds of new settlement homes on land that the Palestinians want for a future state, hours after it released a group of Palestinian prisoners from its jails. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION POLITICS) - RTX14TMP — Palestinian laborers work on a construction site in Ramat Shlomo, a religious Jewish settlement in an area of the occupied West Bank, where Israel has announced plans for new housing units, Oct. 30, 2013. — REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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An ultra-Orthodox youth walks past a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit October 17, 2013. Housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank are up by 70 percent this year, the anti-settlement Peace Now group said on Thursday, despite reports Israel has been quietly delaying new construction. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX14EUM

Creeping Settlements Undermine Peace Negotiations

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks with Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) in Jerusalem, November 6, 2013. Kerry urged Israel on Wednesday to limit settlement building in occupied territories to help push peace talks with the Palestinians back on track. REUTERS/Jason Reed (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX152FC

Palestine-Israel talks are a road without a map

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Palestinian scouts hold posters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a Fatah rally in support of Abbas in the West Bank city of Nablus April 2, 2014. A surprise decision by President Mahmoud Abbas to sign more than a dozen international conventions giving Palestinians greater leverage against Israel left the United States struggling on Wednesday to put peace talks back on track. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3JMDL

Abbas UN move brings legality to talks with Israel

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Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian senior politician and chief negotiator stands near a road under construction, which has become the latest focal point of Arab-Israeli discontent, in the Arab neighbourhood of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem March 14, 2013. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clinched deals for a coalition government on Thursday reflecting a shift to the centre in Israel and a domestic agenda that has shunted peacemaking with Palestinians to the sidelines. "We hope that this Israeli government will

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