settlements

Century Blogs

One state or two?

Jul 18, 2012 by David Heim

A two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis has been growing more and more distant. Prospects suffered yet another blow last week when a government commission in Israel recommended that all Israeli settlements in the West Bank be declared legal.

Features

Adopt a settlement

Christian Zionists and the West Bank

Dec 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Phillips

At American synagogues, Israeli settlement leader Ron Nachman gets a lot of questions. At churches he gets big checks.

Features

Land battle

Settlements and Middle East peace

Oct 18, 2010 by Lara Friedman

Attacks on Israelis inside or emanating from the West Bank are now almost nonexistent. Peace efforts are focused instead on settlements—because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a conflict over land.

News

World Council of Churches urges stop to settlements, but Isreal moving ahead

Israeli policy "very hard to understand"
Oct 06, 2009
The World Council of Churches has called on the Israeli government to “implement an open-ended freeze” on all settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “in preparation for negotiating peace in good faith” in the region.