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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'

(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank....

Mosque Fire Increases Israeli Settlement Tension

(Oct. 4) -- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that burning Islamic holy artifacts is not a good idea. Who didn't get the memo? Israeli settlers, who set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, on Monday before morning prayers, reports Al-Jazeera. The attack comes at...

There Was Never a 'Settlement Freeze' to Begin With

(Sept. 28) -- Middle East peace negotiations have reached an impasse with Israel's cessation of a 10-month "settlement freeze" on Sunday. But, in reality, during the 10-month period of the so-called freeze, settlement construction continued. Haaretz's Dror Etkes unpacks the numbers from Israel's Central Bureau of...

Palestinians Blink in Settlement Poker Match

JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have emerged victorious -- for now -- after a tense weekend of brinkmanship over West Bank settlement building that wrong-footed the Obama administration, divided the Palestinian leadership and perhaps humiliated both of them. Netanyahu's refusal...

Abbas Says Settlements Block Mideast Peace Deal

UNITED NATIONS (Sept. 25) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state. "Israel must choose between peace and the continuation of settlements," Abbas said in his...