Sentence examples for settlements gaza from inspiring English sources

One view of Israel's continued expansion of settlements, Gaza blockade, West Bank walling-in and wanton recourse to high-tech force would be that it's designed precisely to bludgeon, undermine and humiliate the Palestinian people until their dreams of statehood and dignity evaporate.

Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli Ambassador to Washington, who was Israel's chief negotiator with Syria under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and informally advises his government on Syrian issues, argued that the war in Gaza had not changed Israel's essential interest in a Golan Heights settlement: "Gaza is Gaza, and I say that Bashar Assad definitely wants to go ahead with the talks.

Mortars rain on settlements in Gaza the way Katyusha rockets still fall from Lebanon on northern Israel.

Israel has increasingly isolated itself from the world with its hard-line policies on West Bank settlements, the Gaza embargo and other issues.

The settlements in Gaza were approved by Israeli governments and settlers were encouraged to live there for more than a generation.

This week, Mr. Ayyad was behind the firing of a mortar shell at the Netzarim settlement in Gaza, General Kitrey said.

He got them all by promising to trade something Israelis overwhelmingly do not want any more: the Gaza settlements and a handful of settlements in the West Bank.

It was the West Bank settlement of Homesh, not the Gaza settlement of Netzarim.

Mr. Sharon, a leading advocate of settlement building for decades, says he is willing to relinquish the Gaza settlements while seeking to strengthen Israel's hold on the much larger settlements in the West Bank.

Mr. Sharon proposes evacuating up to 17 of the 20 Gaza settlements, as well as some isolated West Bank settlements.

But his remarks to Haaretz suggest that he now views the Gaza settlements as creating "problems".