USA too requires labelling of West Bank goods

It is the latest in a succession of building projects on land global law says belongs to the Palestinians.

The UN Secretary-General says progress toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians requires that Israel freeze its settlement-building.

Speaking at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, Ban condemned recent stabbings of Israelis by Palestinian but also said Israel’s “occupation serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism, ” CBN.com reported.

Ban said Palestinians had heard “half a century of statements” condemning Israel’s occupation, but that their lives had not improved. The feeling among Palestinian diplomats now is that the United States may be less inclined to veto given the absence of peace talks and the depth of US frustration with Israel.

It accused HRW of failing to provide sources for its allegations, such as the claim that from the beginning of October, “11,953 Palestinian civilians in West Bank, Gaza, and Israel” were injured, “including bystanders, protesters, and suspected assailants”. He also noted that the majority of settlers are not ideological, but “settlers of convenience” – ultra-Orthodox, Russian Jews, and other financially-strapped families for whom government subsidies led them to live in the West Bank but who would “gladly leave” if compensated. Indeed, a number of them, including Brom, have endorsed the Geneva Initiative, a blueprint for a permanent status agreement between Israel and a future Palestinian state that was negotiated by senior Israeli and Palestinian officials. It was the third attack inside a West Bank settlement since January 17, when an Israeli woman was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old Palestinian at the entrance to her home in Otniel.

“They are angered by the stifling policies of the occupation”.

Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war.

Hotovely said that the West seemed entirely unconcerned about what has become of the $21.5 billion given to the Palestinians over the past 25 years. But out of crises such as the growth of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, Blair added, “come opportunities that during this long process of transition in the Middle East there is the genuine possibility of changing the way that people think and of reaching a situation where Israel is accepted and recognized”. The head of the local council in the village of Marda, which has seen much of its land expropriated for the expansion of the Ariel settlement, told the organization, “Once we had tens of thousands of barnyard animals; now you can barely find 100 because there is no grazing land”. The workers had to speak in the presence of their employer, so obviously they said how grateful they were for the opportunity to make a living.