The last week has seen arguably one of the most intense bouts of Israeli army and settler violence against Palestinians since the height of the Second Intifada. It is a moment to contemplate how what used to be a few thousand settlers on the margins now find themselves at the heart of the Israeli establishment. If you dive back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, with Likud in
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The illegal outpost has been torn down again and again, but activists and residents, aided by goats and MKs, refuse to quit their quest to seize and settle as much land as they can
The Board of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Israel is scheduled to vote on the approval of the $18 million allocated for the purchase of Palestinian-owned land, based in the Jordan Valley in the oc.