Tag: amona, settlements
Evacuation, legalization bill, high split on settlements
Andrew Tobin, JTAFeb 09, 2017
AMONA, West Bank — In a dramatic clash with the settlement movement at this hilltop outpost, the state seemed to have won. Over two sometimes violent days last week,...
Amona: Settlement outpost evacuated
JTAFeb 02, 2017
JERUSALEM — Police and security officers evacuating homes in the West Bank outpost of Amona were greeted by hundreds of activists, including some throwing stones....
Israel, and Netanyahu, should tread carefully
IJN Editorial StaffJan 26, 2017
Netanyahu is wise to wait to meet Trump; Naftali Bennett, take heed. Some in Israeli circles believe that with the election of Donald Trump, a decisive change in...
Compromise reached on Amona
JNSDec 22, 2016
By Alex Traiman AMONA, West Bank — Residents of the 40-home West Bank settlement of Amona agreed to a last-minute government proposal to shift the community to an...
Do not uproot the planted
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 08, 2016
I was an elementary school student growing up in Israel, I was part of a strong, idealistic, nationalist Zionist community. “Merkaz Harav” (referring to the first...
Solving settlements
Rocky Mountain JewJul 20, 2012
A lot has changed in the two weeks since Alan Dershowitz penned this line: “Now that Israel has a broad and secure national unity government, the time is ripe for...
Miscalculation
Rocky Mountain JewMar 18, 2010
Israel messed up. Big. Netanyahu’s timing of announcing the construction of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem was a mistake. His belligerence in the face of the...
