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Observer
January 25, 2018
“CNN's sources say, for instance, that it may be 'softened' to refer specifically to West Jerusalem, which would change the flavor of the statement considerably.” But one thing is clear. Such a move should not be undertaken unless the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is safe, following the standardsÃÂ ...
JerusalemOnline
January 25, 2018
American workers were seen earlier this week moving boxes with the US consulate logo into a boutique hotel in West Jerusalem that was recently closed down. ... The US appears to have secretly begun to relocate its consular offices in West Jerusalem as part of the planned relocation of the US embassy.
Business Insider
January 25, 2018
Notably, Trump said then that the US would not make any decisions on borders of an East and West Jerusalem, or a final status agreement of the city, which has long been considered to be determined by negotiations. "We are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundariesÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 24, 2018
Pence gave a date for moving the U.S. embassy to West Jerusalem. This will happen next year, and is a move that I support. And he promised that the U.S. will not permit Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. This too is a welcome commitment, even absent an explanation of how this might be accomplished.
Aljazeera.com
January 22, 2018
"It was a speech full of religiosity, talking about the Hebrew bible and its significance here in Israel," Fawcett said, speaking from inside the Knesset in West Jerusalem. Chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority Saeb Erekat derided Pence's speech for its controversial religious nature. "The messianicÃÂ ...
cleveland.com
January 14, 2018
Israel, it is assumed, will retain West Jerusalem as it had prior to the war. East Jerusalem, which had been under Jordanian control before the war, will serve as the Palestinian capital. If the locations of diplomatic offices are to be taken as expressions of how various countries and diplomatic bodies believeÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 6, 2018
Palestinian Christians on Saturday pummelled the car of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem during a visit to the occupied West Bank in protest against the church's decision to sell land to Jewish groups. The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the biggest private landowners in the Holy Land and inÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 4, 2018
"The Palestinians have referred to East Jerusalem to be the capital of a Palestinian state," he says. "Which implies that at least West Jerusalem is going to be the capital of the Israeli state. "If you read the whole of the president's comments when he made the announcement, he actually said it was up theÃÂ ...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
January 4, 2018
A plan to build a Jewish residential neighborhood in Givat Hamatos (Airplane Hill) in southern Jerusalem was approved in 2014, but has been frozen for four years due to pressure from the U.S. and EU countries. The area is adjacent to a main traffic artery of west Jerusalem. Givat Hamatos is one of the lastÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 27, 2017
Israel's transport minister wants to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem's Old City and name a station next to the Western Wall after Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz said he wanted to honour the US president for his decision to recognise the city as Israel's capital. The Western Wall is the holiest site where JewsÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 26, 2017
I joined throngs of Israeli civilians and troops walking across the old no-man's land of barbed wire and smoking earth between Israeli West Jerusalem ... He was warned that if he attacked Israel -controlled West Jerusalem, he would lose everything – the Old City with its Muslim shrines and the West Bank.
CityLab
December 22, 2017
To understand why East Jerusalem and its environs are so critical to the fate of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, some background: After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Israel captured West Jerusalem, while Jordan controlled East Jerusalem and the adjoining West Bank. Jordan lost these areas to Israel inÃÂ ...
European Jewish Press
December 19, 2017
The Czech Republic said Wednesday that it recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, adding that "considers Jerusalem to be future capital of both states, meaning the State of Israel and the future State of Palestine." The announcement came hours after US President Donald Trump declared that hisÃÂ ...
CNN
December 17, 2017
Nabil Abu Rudeineh added the Palestinians would not accept any changes to the 1967 border, the green line that delineates East and West Jerusalem. The Old City of Jerusalem -- including the sites holy to the three Abrahamic faiths -- sits in East Jerusalem. Previous negotiations have seen the sidesÃÂ ...
Vox
December 12, 2017
Though Israel's parliament and the prime minister's home are in Jerusalem, they sit in West Jerusalem, the side of the city Israel has controlled since 1949. Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed that half of the city. The international community views that land as occupied territory; theÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
December 6, 2017
Earlier Wednesday, Trump declared that the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, but the statement out of Prague specifically cited the possibility that the ancient city could serve a dual purpose in future peace talks. “The Czech Republic together with other EU member states, following the EUÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 5, 2017
In December 1917 — 100 years ago this month — the British general Edmund Allenby seized control of Jerusalem from its Ottoman Turkish defenders. Dismounting his horse, he entered the Old City on foot, through Jaffa Gate, out of respect for its holy status. In the century since, Jerusalem has been foughtÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The United States Consulate building complex in West Jerusalem. Many believe this consulate building, completed several years ago and serving both American citizens in this area and visa-seeking Palestinians, could be the site of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.CreditJim Hollander/EuropeanÃÂ ...
Haaretz
November 5, 2017
... battle against Jerusalem District Court due to mounting criticism over land deals the church has made in recent years in West Jerusalem and ...
Cyprus Mail
October 25, 2017
As for Israeli Arabs - they already live all over Israel, including in areas adjacent to west Jerusalem such as Abu Ghosh. Any citizen is free to ...
Al-Monitor
October 23, 2017
This followed a deal to sell 500 dunams of land in the Talbiya and Rehavia neighborhoods in West Jerusalem. Previous deals were reached in ...
Aljazeera.com
October 9, 2017
He remains determined to keep rebuilding: "In 1967, the Israelis kicked my family out of their home in Jorat al-Anab [in West Jerusalem], and ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
The school previously attained a building permit from the Jerusalem Awqaf Department, however, the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
However, the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem annulled the permit. The school called on residents and students' parents to participate in a ...
Sputnik International
March 29, 2017
Palestine maintains its position on the settlement of the Israel conflict and does not intend to give up its claim to be politically recognized as an independent state with a capital in West Jerusalem, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal ...
Tablet Magazine
March 26, 2017
Several years ago, a group of women in the west Jerusalem enclave of Ein Kerem, a mountainside neighborhood known for its ancient churches and early Christian history, began hosting tourists in their homes as part of a project called "Nifleot Ein Kerem ...
The Union Leader
March 24, 2017
To the Editor: Muslim American activist Tarek El-Messidi teamed up with fellow activist Linda Sarsour to raise funds to rebuild the Jewish cemetery in St. Louis where hundreds of headstones were desecrated.
International Middle East Media Center
March 23, 2017
Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the week of 16-22, March 2017. Israeli forces killed 2 Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Universe.byu.edu
March 23, 2017
"I could go to the old city or West Jerusalem and know my way around," Peterson said. "It really became home." Peterson said she enjoyed the spiritual aspects of her studies in Jerusalem, as well as learning about the rich history of the area.
The National
March 22, 2017
He is able to exist in many spaces - in West Jerusalem cafes with Israeli friends, in Jerusalem night clubs, in European art circles, in Gaza with Palestinian militants - but every new encounter pushes him further away from his true identity.
rabble.ca (blog)
March 21, 2017
The total population of West Jerusalem (the New City) and East Jerusalem (the Old City) and their environs was about 200,000 with a slight Arab majority.
Anadolu Agency
March 20, 2017
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the area in 1980, claiming it -- along with West Jerusalem -- as the "unified" capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international ...
ISRAEL21c
March 19, 2017
"A third of them were from West Jerusalem, and it wasn't easy convincing them to come," says Djemal. One of Djemal's friends, a religious Jew in high-tech, was afraid of coming to Beit Hanina.
Press TV
March 18, 2017
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has urged the European Union to avoid holding its meetings with Israeli officials in West Jerusalem al-Quds. Saeb Erekat, the PLO's secretary-general, made the appeal in a letter addressed to EU foreign ...
Anadolu Agency
March 17, 2017
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the area in 1980, claiming it -- along with West Jerusalem -- as the "unified" capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international ...
The Jewish Star
March 15, 2017
"Jerusalem police said today that they had confessions from three suspects directly involved in planting bombs that wrecked the Supersol supermarket in West Jerusalem on Feb. 21, killing two Hebrew University students and injuring nine other persons.
Forward
March 2, 2017
The most famous of these cases is the Mamilla cemetery near downtown West Jerusalem, an ancient Muslim gravesite that is now the site of the Center for Human Dignity, a project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Montreal Gazette
February 27, 2017
But today, as he sits in his office in west Jerusalem, Zuroff concedes that the chase is probably almost over. More than 70 years after the last gas chambers were shuttered, old age will likely catch up with the remaining Nazi war criminals before ...
The Hudson Independent
February 27, 2017
Film and Falafel: An Israeli dinner and screening of East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown. Time and sign-up to be advised.
Conservative Review
February 26, 2017
National Harbor, Maryland - The Trump administration needs to commit to a "180 degree" from the Obama policies if it wants to defeat ISIS, former U.S.
International Middle East Media Center
February 26, 2017
A 2016 report by Israeli daily Haaretz said that Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem received less than half the funds that the Jerusalem municipality transferred to Jewish schools in West Jerusalem. In 2011, the Applied Research InstituteÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
February 25, 2017
Our community's struggle is one for human and women's rights. It is a struggle for liberation and justice. Those who support the oppression of another people are disparaging 100 years of struggle by women and LGBTQs.
Anglicannews
February 23, 2017
A service of rededication has taken place at St Saviour's Church, in Acre in northern Israel, which was closed in the late 1940s.
Jweekly.com
February 22, 2017
... a Polish Holocaust survivor to a 12-year-old daughter of immigrants. "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man" is a look at the singer-songwriter who died last year, while "East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem" chronicles Israeli guitarist-singer David Broza's ...
International Middle East Media Center
February 21, 2017
... the invasion, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Kayed Mahmoud, Shahin Oleyyan, and three siblings, identified as Samer, Mohannad and Sami Anwar Obeid; they were moved to the al-Maskobiyya detention and interrogation center, in west Jerusalem.
Hollywood Reporter
February 20, 2017
Most who turn up to audition have spent time in the so-called "Russian compound" of al-Moskobiya, West Jerusalem's notorious interrogation and detention center. Their treatment there routinely included various forms of physical and psychological ...
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
February 20, 2017
Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated on February 8, 2017 in west Jerusalem in support of Barbur Gallery after the Jerusalem Municipality announced its intentions to close the space for hosting a lecture with Yuli Novak, the director of Breaking the Silence.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 17, 2017
Friedman, a right-wing Zionist who has a house in West Jerusalem, has helped funnel tens of millions of dollars to Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
PBS NewsHour
February 15, 2017
Married to a Palestinian Muslim and struggling to even rent a house in West Jerusalem, since no one wants to lease their house to an Arab man, this couple wants to move to the U.S.
+972 Magazine
February 14, 2017
... for most of my life Jaffa Street in central Jerusalem was like a foreign, European country. In my childhood, the word "Jew" referred to either Israeli Border Police or riot Police.
