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International How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick
Today it is a city of more than 30,000 people, with red-roofed apartment blocks, shopping malls, a public swimming pool and ancient olive trees sitting on neat roundabouts.
The rise of Ma'ale Adumim captures the success of Israel's vast settlement project and the extent of the challenge posed to any future Palestinian state by the settlements and the often overlooked infrastructure of Israel's occupation.
 Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that his country would cut ties with the... |
 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent diplomatic push into Central Asia yielded high-minded rhetoric but few substantive... | ||
 The EU is exploring emergency interventions to its maritime trade restrictions, moving to temporarily freeze the... |
 Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia and the country’s former president, cautioned... |
