Prelude to Ethnic Cleansing? Israel Plans 3200 more Squatter homes on Palestinian Land

Juan Cole 06/08/2014

Israel huge new settlement push raises Palestinian ire (via AFP)

Israel unveiled plans for 3,200 settler homes Thursday in retaliation for the formation of a Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas and the international community, raising the Palestinians’ ire. Tenders for nearly 1,500 new settlement houses…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.