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The Israeli angle: The Muller report, which examined Russian involvement in the US presidential election, showed that Donald Trump worked to counter anti-Israel bias at the United Nations even before he entered the White House. According to a report by Barak Ravid for Channel 13 News, Trump, his adviser Jared Kushner and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, worked with several foreign governments to prevent the Security Council Resolution condemning the Jewish presence over the so-called Green Line in December 2016, Flynn said during his interrogation by the FBI that Trump and his team saw the thwarted decision as a...

With Trump’s Deal of the Century in the offing, an anti-Israel legal opinion in the State Department has surfaced, which outlaws all Israeli communities over the Green Line. CUFI, which speaks for 4 million Christians, as well as the RCA and ZOA, are urging the Administration to rescind the controversial document. The fear is that Israel will be in a disadvantageous position if the "Deal of the Century" is published and an official pro-Arab legal opinion, negating all settlements, remains intact. Pro-Israel organizations call for the opinion, also known as the Hansell memorandum, to be rescinded, while BDS organizations are...

The UN Security Council resolution will not slow down construction in the 1967 liberated parts of Jerusalem, according to the municipality’s Local Planning and Construction committee. In fact, on Wednesday, the committee plans to vote to approve thousands of new housing units in Jewish and mixed neighborhoods across the 1949 armistice line, a.k.a. the “greenline.” The planning committee will approve 2,600 new housing units in the neighborhood of Gilo, another 2,600 units in Givat Hamatos, and 400 units in Ramat Shlomo – altogether 5,600 units in eastern Jerusalem.

Officials in Israel expressed outrage on Monday evening after the European Union (EU) passed a resolution stipulating that agreements with Israel will no longer apply to any areas over the 1949 Armistice borders. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to the decision and said, "The Europeans continue to act unilaterally with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict". "This resolution achieves the opposite from what they sought to achieve. These types of declarations only push actual dialogue further away and give a boost to the Palestinians to continue their efforts to condemn Israel in the international arena and to continue the relentless...

The political class -- they build themselves new office buildings and such -- live in a different universe from the rest of us, and the rest of us are getting routinely pickpocketed. No greater proof of this truth exists than the remarks of St. Paul's own City Council Member Dave Thune last week after Metro Transit released the financial figures for the first six months of the Green Line. Passengers boarding the Green Line from its debut in June, 2014 through the end of the year paid $6.21 million into the farebox, or about 35.8 percent of what it costs...

Peace Now co-founder Tzali Reshef may passionately defend his organization’s position against construction in areas outside the 1949 Armistice Line (“Green Line”) — but in his other life Reshef’s company invests in the lucrative building trade to be found in those exact same areas in Jerusalem. The disparity emerged last week following Reshef’s debate on Israel’s Channel 2 television with Dani Dayan, entrepreneur and former chairman of the Judea and Samaria Council of Jewish Communities (Yesha Council). Reshef, 61, served as a Labor MK from August 2002 to February 2003. Today he is a successful businessman who heads Arledan Investments,...

Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce to the European Union from Jewish communities beyond the Green Line, Israeli and European officials said on Sunday, according to AFP. The restrictions stem from directives issued by the European Commission in February and affect chicken and milk products from communities in eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Judea and Samaria. "In keeping with previous decisions, the EU no longer recognized the authority of the veterinary inspections services of Israel to approve the export of poultry and (dairy products), the origin of which are in settlements," a European official told...

The Head of the Samaria Regional Council, Gershon Mesika, said Tuesday that the latest statistics prove that the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria cannot be undone. "The data that are published, again and again, give a clear picture that shows that the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria has passed the point of no return,” he said. "The population beyond the Green Line currently numbers over 730,000 Jewish citizens,” he noted. The “Green Line” refers to the 1949 armistice line, and the territories beyond it include parts of Jerusalem, as well as Judea and Samaria. "There are more...

Metro officials on Saturday said excessive heat was the probable cause for a train derailment Friday in Prince George’s County. Investigators said a “heat kink” due to extreme high temperatures and direct exposure to sunlight likely caused the rails to expand, resulting in the derailment. The derailment was reported on the inbound stretch of the Green Line near the West Hyattsville Station around 4:45 p.m.

High temperatures caused a “heat kink” along a stretch of Metrorail track, officials said, closing a portion of Green Line service throughout the weekend and likely impacting the Monday morning rush hour. Service between Fort Totten and Prince George’s Plaza was suspended Saturday and Sunday while crews repaired the 1,000-foot section of track bent out of shape because of the hot weather. Metro officials announced Sunday night that service had restarted between the two stations, but trains were single-tracking.

Left-wing human rights activists have drawn the ‘red line’ at the Green Line to ban a human rights newspaper of Judea and Samaria from a march on behalf of people’s’ rights. “It’s propaganda,” they claimed.

Beersheba, Israel NEARLY 40 years after it was removed from official maps, atlases and school books, the Green Line has made a significant comeback. Israel’s education minister, Yuli Tamir, has ordered the Green Line border, which separates Israel from the West Bank, to be reintroduced in all texts and maps used in the Israeli school system. From now on, Israeli children will know exactly where the Green Line is and what it signifies — a political border that, at some point, will almost certainly become the line separating neighboring Israeli and Palestinian sovereign territories. It was shortly after the Six-Day...

Israel has nearly completed its plan to cut off East Jerusalem (Arab Sector) from the West bank, by seizing Palestinian land and property in and around Jerusalem for Jewish settlers, and in the last couple of years building its "security barrier" across the West Bank to seal off the Jewish state and many of its "questionable" settlements in the territory. Thus turning Jerusalem into a unified, and more importantly, jewish dominated municiple area which would prevent the Palestinians from using it as its own capital Jerusalem - which is holy to all 3 religions - is the 'heart and soul'...

I am a settler. According to most of the world, I and people like me are to blame for violence in the Mideast, global terrorism, even tribal warfare in The Sudan. I'm sure that, given time, the hurricanes hitting seacoasts around the world could also be attributed to the settlers. If I were to be viciously murdered and hacked to death along with children and old people tomorrow, it wouldn't be the person wielding the knife who would be at fault, it would be me and us to blame! I am an enemy of the world. I am a more...

Mofaz denies barrier running along Green LineUri Yablonka Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has said the barrier will not be routed along the Green Line, even after its route is changed according to the HCJ's (High Court of Justice)criteria. He said that in some parts the barrier would be closer ot the Green Line than originally envisaged, and that the amount of Palestinian lands expropriated for the barrier will be reduced almost by half, from 3,500 acres to just under 2,000. He said that Ma'aleh Adumin and gush ezion would remian witihn the security barrier. (2004-08-02 18:18:14.0)

Last Update: 08/10/2003 21:30 IDF to call up four battalions of reservists after Sukkot By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon, decided Wednesday to call up four battalions of reserve infantry soldiers after the Sukkot holiday, to be deployed in the Gaza Strip and along the Green Line border between Israel and the West Bank in the Jenin, Tul Karm, Qalqilyah and Ramallah sectors. The reservists will be deployed in order to boost troops already on high alert for terrorist attacks and in some cases will replace regular army units whose training...

Sharansky: Fence Is Too Political 19:42 Oct 02, '03 / 6 Tishrei 5764 Minister Natan Sharansky (Likud) explained to Arutz-7 this morning why he voted nay on the planned partition route yesterday: "Two years ago, I supported a fence as a tool to help the military fight terrorism, and the intention was to ensure that it would not become something like a border along the Green Line of 1967. But what happened yesterday was that we voted that it would be a political thing - an intrinsic part of the negotiations with the U.S. For instance, in Ariel we decided...

The shooting death of Bezeq technician Amit Martin in Baka al-Gharbiya, an Arab village on the Green Line, is a further reminder that civilian Israelis working in or near the territories are easy and desirable targets for Palestinian terrorists, even in areas of Israeli security control. Martin is not the first Bezeq worker killed in the ongoing Palestinian violence; last August company worker Nizal Awasat and security guard Yekutiel Amihai were killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian gunman ambushed their truck near the Old City's Damascus Gate. Two other Bezeq employees were seriously injured in the attack, as well as...

Five people were killed and three injured when terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer, near the Green Line, close to midnight Sunday and opened fire. Police sources said that the bodies of three adults and two children had been found. According to initial reports, it appeared that the terrorists entered a home and opened fire, after first firing on kibbutz members walking from the dining room to their homes. Israel Radio later reported that three people were killed in a home and two near the dining room. The security coordinator at the kibbutz spotted at least one of the terrorists and opened...