Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted what he describes as “a policy of restraint regarding settlements which will include a suspension of new permits and new construction in Judea and Samaria for a period of ten months.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s refusal to offer more than temporary, superficial restraint on settlement building indicates that far more ambitious and persuasive American policies will be needed to create a two-state peace.

August through September 2009

New figures on construction and continued plans for expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem.

Settler population growth, IDF refusal, security barrier re-routing, disinvestment based on activities beyond the Green Line, West Bank construction update, tourism in West Bank outposts, a Jerusalem rally criticizing Pres. Obama, excerpts from the Fatah Political Program of August 2009, Palestinians living in Pisgat Zeev, and a statement by the Trades Union Congress

Remarks by King Abdallah of Jordan and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas