Settlers have &#39;messianic complex
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday the settlers he intends to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and West Bank have a messianic complex.
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&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it&#39;s very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful
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JERUSALEM -- Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers and their supporters demonstrated against their government&#39;s plan to remove all settlements from Gaza and four from the West Bank, taking pains to keep their protest peaceful to counter warnings about
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The children who live in and near Bethlehem regard it as special, but for different reasons. What they don&#39;t know too well are each other.
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Israeli officials say approval has been given for hundreds of new homes in settlements in the West Bank.
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RESIDENTS of a small Jewish settlement said yesterday they had reached a deal to move together to a village inside Israel. They are the first community to agree to be evacuated under the Government&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan.
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RESIDENTS of a small Jewish settlement said yesterday they have struck a deal to move together to a village inside Israel, the first community to agree to be moved, giving a boost to the government&#39;s contentious Gaza pullout plan.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Despairing of life under Israeli occupation, many Palestinian Christians are moving abroad, threatening their ancient links to Bethlehem and the land where Jesus was born.
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Christians in the West Bank say insecurity rather than religious persecution is to blame for their communityâs vulnerability.
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Israelâs police chief Moshe Karadi is worried by the mounting militancy in the settler community against next summerâs planned withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank, which now seems a done deal as the coalition deal between Labor and Likud
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Twenty families in a small Israeli farming community deep in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday became the first Jewish settlement to agree to move inside Israel under Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan.
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Israel examines plans for a new settlement in East Jerusalem, an area considered occupied land.
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AMONA, West Bank -- The movement to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which only a few months ago appeared to be a divided, waning political force, is experiencing a revival after a summer of war that caused many Israelis to question the wisdom of abandoning more territory.
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When Yitzhak Rabin coined the phrase &quot;political settlements&quot; (the opposite of &quot;security settlements&quot;), he was referring to settlements outside the settlement blocs that more or less abut the Green Line.
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In the Mideast hierarchy of hatred, the collaborator occupies a place of particular, perhaps ultimate, dishonor. In a region where ancient tribal ties have flourished amid satellite television and the World
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It has been a rough couple of months for Merav Cohen, a Jewish settler and mother of three who has broken ranks with her neighbors to support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to close the settlements, withdraw the troops and get out of the Gaza Strip.
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The occupied city of Bethlehem in the West Bank has been witnessing an atmosphere overwhelmed by sadness while celebrating Christmas because of the continued Israeli occupation, the besiege and building the wall of separation.