{"id":1638,"date":"2006-10-10T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2006-10-10T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:40:27","slug":"israeli-settlements-never-stopped-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settlements never stopped growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements growing again<\/p>\n

West Bank expansion may complicate Secretary Rice’s aim for Israeli-Palestinian talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Ilene R. Prusher<\/strong> | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>
\nKARNEI SHOMRON, WEST BANK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

At this time last year, many people in this settlement started eyeing their future with increased doubt.<\/p>\n

Some 8,000 Jewish settlers had just been forcibly removed from Gaza, and people here learned that Karnei Shomron was going to be outside the separation barrier – a high-security network of walls and fencing that Israel is building inside the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Today, things look much different, underscoring just how the turmoil in Gaza and the war with Lebanon has affected Israeli politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, “things” are looking very much like business as usual. <\/p>\n

U.S. calls Karnei Shomron building plans ‘provocation’; warns of cut in loan backing<\/strong>
\nBy Aluf Benn
\nOctober 2003<\/a> Ha’aretz<\/em> <\/p>\n

Land seizures: Gaza pullout tradeoff?<\/strong>
\nBy Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
\nMonday 14 June 2004<\/a> Aljazeera<\/em><\/p>\n

Israelis hasten land grab in shadow of wall<\/strong>
\nBulldozers go in as expansion of settlements continues<\/strong>
\nChris McGreal in Jayyous
\n14 December 2004<\/a> The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos reveal Israeli West Bank expansion<\/strong>
\nChris McGreal in Jerusalem
\n21 March 2005<\/a> The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

Envoy to U.S.: Bush agrees with Israel on settler blocs<\/strong>
\nBy Gideon Alon and Aluf Benn
\n27 March 2005<\/a> Haaretz<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel: Expanding Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories<\/strong>
\nLetter to President George W. Bush
\n27 December 2005<\/a> Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

Israeli Peace Activists Respond to Olmert’s Speech<\/strong>
\nTravesty vs. Reality<\/strong> by Dorothy Naor
\nCountdown to Apartheid<\/strong> by Jeff Halper
\n26 May 2006
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