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Obama ties Netanyahu support to talks

Sep. 1, 2009
Both sides say that the U.S. and Israel are near an agreement on a halt to expanding Israeli settlements.
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Netanyahu: Illegal settlements will go

Netanyahu: Illegal settlements will go

JERUSALEM, June 1 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says there will be no new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and illegal outposts there will be dismantled.

Poll: Americans oppose Israeli settlements

COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 29 (UPI) -- The majority of Americans say they think Israel should not build settlements in the Palestinian territories, a poll indicates.

Most West Bank settlements may be illegal

JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A secret Israeli database recently obtained by the media indicates nearly 75 percent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank were set up illegally.

UPI Poll: Few support Israeli settlements

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Less than one-quarter of U.S. respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll said they deem Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank as necessary.

Jordan blasts Israeli settlement expansion

AMMAN, Jordan, June 26 (UPI) -- Jordan Sunday blasted reported Israeli plans to expand Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea shores.

Militants fire rockets at Gaza settlements

GAZA, April 30 (UPI) -- Palestinian militants continued Saturday firing homemade mortar shells at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Radio reported.

PA warns of buying settlements' equipment

GAZA, March 15 (UPI) -- A Palestinian Authority official Tuesday warned Palestinian businessmen against purchasing technological equipment from Israeli settlements in Gaza.

Israeli fire wounds Gaza schoolchildren

GAZA, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Seven Palestinian children were injured Sunday when an Israeli army tank fired two shells near an elementary school in southern Gaza.

PA slams Israel for expanding settlements

GAZA, June 16 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority officials Wednesday criticized Israel's decision to expand several West Bank Jewish settlements and for Jewish settlers from Gaza.

Israeli, U.S. officials talk of separation

WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. officials in Washington met with a visiting Israeli delegation to discuss Israel's plan for unilateral separation in the occupied territories.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch