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Study: 60,000 Israeli West Bank Settlers Are American

While it is unclear whether this figure represents a distinct rise or fall in the number of American Jews living in the occupied West Bank, the number of West Bank settlers has risen from 110,000 to around 400,000 since the Oslo Peace Accords were signed in 1993, a 264% increase.

Study: 60,000 Israeli West Bank Settlers Are American

New research has revealed that 15 percent of the total Jewish settler population in the occupied West Bank are American nationals. In a presentation to promote a forthcoming book, Oxford University scholar Sara Yael Hirschhorn revealed that

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Iran Ceases Financial Aid To Hamas

Hamas’s politburo chief Moussa Abu Marzouk, who is believed to currently reside in exile in Egypt, has now claimed that Iran’s financial backing has dried up.

Iran has completely cut off its financial aid to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, a senior Hamas official claimed on Monday, according to Israeli media reports. Since a rapprochement between the two last year after a rift

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Former International Court Of Justice Judge: Dick Cheney Should Face War Crimes Prosecution

“I voted for Obama but I think he made a great mistake when he decided not to instigate legal proceedings against some of these people.”

As a young boy, Thomas Buergenthal recalls, his mother taught him to kneel every night and thank God for his love and his protection. It's a habit, I suggest, that must have been difficult to maintain after August 1944 when, at the age of 10, he was transported to Auschwitz. "It was," says Buergenthal. "Very difficult. I've always known that I

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