Israel paying hundreds of thousands of shekels to move West Bank settlers’ mobile homes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - September 5, 2012 - 12:00am

The Israeli government is footing the bill, worth hundreds of thousands of shekels, for moving caravans in the now-evacuated West Bank outpost of Migron. The caravans are owned and rented out by an organization called “Amana,” which supports settlements in the West Bank and other areas of Israel. The mobile structures at Migron are not owned by the former Migron residents, but rather by Amana, an organization responsible for illegal settlement construction in numerous other areas, has a yearly budget of tens of millions of shekels.

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Pro-Settler Vandals Attack West Bank Monastery
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Allyn Fisher-Ilan - September 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday and daubed pro-settler graffiti on its walls in a possible retaliation for the eviction of families from an unauthorized outpost. The name of the unauthorized Migron outpost, cleared of Israeli settlers following a court order on Sunday, was scrawled on the well-known 19th century Latrun Monastery, alongside the words "Jesus is a monkey" in Hebrew, police said.

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Evicted vow to return to Migron
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
by Hugh Naylor - September 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Jewish settlers vowed yesterday to return to their illegal hilltop enclave in the West Bank, a day after Israeli authorities imposed a court order and evicted them from the Palestinian-owned site. "We will start a new fight," said Elisheva Razvag, 27-year-old mother of two who works as an occupational therapist. She and her family were among the 300 Israelis peacefully vacated from the hamlet of Migron on Sunday, after Israel's Supreme Court ordered the state to relocate them by today.

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Palestinians, settlers forced to share Ras al-Amud home
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Noam Dvir - September 3, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli settlers began moving into part of a home in east Jerusalem on Sunday, as police officers enforced a court order requiring the Palestinian family living there to vacate part of it.

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Occupation Corrupts Soul of Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Leonard Fein - (Opinion) September 3, 2012 - 12:00am

It is tempting to impute retroactive intentionality to yesterday’s events. As Gershom Gorenberg felicitously puts it, we mistakenly assume “that if things turned out a certain way, someone planned it that way.” Looking back now, it may seem a foregone conclusion that Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank (and in Golan, too) was from the beginning an evil design, intended to encroach on Palestinian rights rather than to solve immediate problems. But the effort to draw a straight line of intentionality from then to now obscures more than it clarifies.

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Settlers evacuated from large West Bank outpost
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Alon Bernstein - September 2, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel completed evacuation of a large unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost on Sunday, culminating years of legal wrangling in a case that has become a rallying cry for hardline settler groups opposed to any withdrawal from occupied land claimed by the Palestinians. By midday, all of Migron's roughly 300 residents had left, authorities said, two days ahead of a court-ordered deadline to clear out.

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Palestinians slam Israeli attempt to confiscate lands in West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 31, 2012 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- A 3,500-dunum of land devoted for future economic and industrial investment in the West Bank, is facing a serious threat of an Israeli confiscation, although it is owned by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), officials revealed on Thursday.

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Settlers stone Palestinian bus near Ramallah, 5 hurt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 31, 2012 - 12:00am

NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Five Palestinians were wounded on Friday morning after a group of settlers threw stones at their bus near Ramallah, witnesses said. The bus was traveling from Nablus, when it was attacked by the settlers from a hill near Burqa village, one of those injured, Raed Ewais, said. Settlers threw stones, damaging the bus and injuring passengers, witnesses said. The incident came after settlers gathered on the same road on Thursday night near Sinjil, throwing stones at passing vehicles.

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Settlement rabbi: Attacking innocent Palestinians ‘sacrilege’
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
August 31, 2012 - 12:00am

(JTA) -- The rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Bat Aiyn defined a recent attack on a Palestinian taxi as “sacrilege.” Rabbi Daniel Cohen said he hoped a police investigation of the attack, which occurred earlier this month, would show that youths from his community were not involved, Israel Radio reported on Friday. The attack left six wounded after a Molotov cocktail hit the driving taxi. Police questioned several youths from Bat Aiyn about the incident, which happened near the settlement. 

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Israeli settlers have only themselves to blame for Migron outpost ruling
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yossi Verter - (Opinion) August 30, 2012 - 12:00am

No one was surprised by the High Court of Justice ruling ordering all residents of the settlement outpost of Migron to be out by next Tuesday - except, of course, for the settlers themselves. Television news shows reported that "shock" reigned in the illegal outpost last night. Its residents claimed the court had "raped" them. Once again, the robbed Cossacks are crying foul, a moment before they relocate to the shiny new settlement that the state built for them nearby at a cost of NIS 30 million.

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