Posts Tagged Jerusalem

Israel police hunt for vandals that hit Arab town

An Israeli-Arab and children are seen on a street next to a graffiti in the village of Abu Gosh near Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Israeli police have launched an investigation to find perpetrators who vandalized cars and sprayed hate graffiti in an Arab town near Jerusalem. The Hebrew graffiti reads, "Racism or assimilation" and "Arabs out." (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could stir unrest in the West Bank, Israel’s top army commander in the territory warned Tuesday.

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Israeli official blasts idea of Palestinian state

In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, touches the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City. The idea of Palestinians establishing a state in the territory they seek has "reached a dead end," Naftali Bennett, economics minister, said Monday, June 17, 2013, in the latest remarks by hard-liners that appear to contradict the country's official support for a "two-state solution" to its conflict with the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is urging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish and democratic state.

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Cars torched in likely attack by Jewish extremists

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say vandals have torched two vehicles in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem in what appears to be an attack by Jewish extremists.

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Israel moving ahead with new settler housing

File - In this Sept. 20, 2011file photo, Israeli settler youths wave Israeli flags at the start of a protest march against Palestinian statehood, from the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar near the Palestinians town of Nablus. Palestinian Israel is going ahead with plans to build more than 1,000 settler homes in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday, a step that drew criticism from the Palestinians and may pose a challenge to peace efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is moving forward with plans to build more than 1,000 homes in two small isolated Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday, as Palestinian officials complained that Israel is undercutting U.S. peace efforts at a sensitive time.

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