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Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial

(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while...

Israeli PM Offers Conditional Settlements Freeze

JERUSALEM (Oct. 11) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said for the first time that he would extend the settlement restrictions in the West Bank - if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish national homeland. Menahem Kahana, AFP / Getty Images Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses...

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...