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Israel Claims Nearly 1,000 Acres of West Bank Land Israel announced Sunday it was taking over a large swath of land in the occupied West Bank, which Israeli media reports say is part of the Tel Aviv regime's settlement expansion projects, drawing condemnation from anti-settlement activists, who say this is the biggest seizure in 30 years. A Palestinian official condemned the decision, saying it was part of an Israeli campaign to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. “It shows once again that this government is not interested in peace,” said Xavier Abu Eid, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s negotiations department. “What happened in Gaza and what is happening in the West Bank are both part of the same policy: to deny Palestinian rights.” Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president, urged Israel to cancel the appropriation. “The decision will lead to more instability. This will only inflame the situation after the war in Gaza,” he said. An Israeli NGO 'Peace Now' says the new plan has been unprecedented in its scope since the 1980s. Earlier, another Israeli NGO, B'Tselem, announced that Tel Aviv has seized tens of thousands of hectares of land from Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967 in order to build more than 200 settlements. Palestinians aspire to form a state in the lands that Israel conquered in 1967. Israel occupied and then annexed the West Bank and East al-Quds in the Six-Day War of 1967, but the move has never been recognized by the international community. The international community, including the Red Cross, United Nations, and the International Court of Justice, have ruled that Israel's settlements in the West Bank are illegal, as they break laws set out in the Fourth Geneva Convention. Peace Now said Sunday’s land declaration was “unprecedented in its scope since the 1980s”, and would “stab moderate Palestinian forces in the back”. "By declaring another 4,000 dunams as state land, the Israeli government is stabbing [Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas] and the moderate Palestinian forces in the back, proving again that violence delivers Israeli concessions while non-violence results in settlement expansion," the group added. http://rt.com/news/184096-israel-west-bank-settlement/http://presstv.com/detail/2014/08/31/377207/israel-grabs-more-palestinian-land/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/world/middleeast/israel-claims-nearly-1000-acres-of-west-bank-land-near-bethlehem.html?_r=0 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/378fb0b0-312a-11e4-b2fd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3C0FqbPoa

Another day, another few threats from racist Zionists against the defenseless Palestinians. Member of Israeli Knesset calls for defiling Aqsa Mosque, another calls for killing Palestinians OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Likud’s Knesset member Moshe Feiglin called for desecrating the Aqsa Mosque in thousands during the holy month of Ramadan, while the Jewish Home’s Knesset member Eli Ben Dahan called for killing the Palestinians. A Hebrew channel quoted Feiglin as saying that preventing the Jews from entering what he described as the temple mount (Aqsa Mosque) during Ramadan is a source of concern, especially since it is associated with the Israeli diplomatic talks with the Palestinians. Feiglin also expressed his fears of what he claimed as the Muslim takeover of the alleged temple mount in the framework of an intended agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. For his part, Eli Ben Dahan, who also serves as a deputy minister of religious services, incited the Jewish settlers to kill the Palestinians. In a press interview conducted by an Israeli magazine, Dahan described the Palestinians as “animals who do not deserve to live”, and called for killing them. He claimed that the Palestinians do not want peace and teach their kids in refugee camps how to use weapons to kill the Jews.