The row has exposed the extent that the Bush administration was willing to sanction settlement-building, despite its publicly stated policy.
In this context, the E.U.'s sanctions against settlement activity make sense, too, and should probably not be confused with the B.D.S. campaign at all.
But because it's guarded by armed men 24/7, and because the Israeli government officially sanctions the settlement, Hashmonaim doesn't feel illegal.
The assent of three-fourths of the claimants is needed before the bankruptcy court will sanction the settlement.
Barack Obama's administration cannot stand him, and European countries are slowly moving to recognise Palestinian statehood and debate sanctions on settlements.
But the most expensive string of sanctions and settlements goes to Bank of America, which not only appears four times on the top-ten league table for its mortgage-related practises, but has been stung by a long-tail of other fines, like LIBOR rigging.
When sanctioning early settlement construction in the West Bank, the report says: "the principal means Israel used... was declaration of 'state land', a mechanism that resulted in the seizure of more than 900,000 dunams of land (16% of the West Bank), with most of the declarations being made in 1979-1992.
In recent weeks, Microsoft rivals urged the Justice Department to include such sanctions in any settlement deal.
After a colourful military career in his early manhood, during which he was knighted (1591), Gorges' life after 1605 was dominated by attempts to gain royal sanction for various settlement schemes in North America, although he himself never traveled there.
The Qing government officially sanctioned controlled Han settlement, but sought to manage tensions between the various regional and ethnic groups.
