{"id":13855,"date":"2013-11-09T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=13855&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:21:05","slug":"the-settlements-boom-of-the-first-8-months-of-netanyahus-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-settlements-boom-of-the-first-8-months-of-netanyahus-government","title":{"rendered":"The Settlements Boom of the First 8 Months of Netanyahu&#8217;s Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Peace Now Israel and Americans for Peace Now released a new report looking at the first 8 months of the Netanyahu government and its record regarding settlements. The key findings are summarized below, followed by a detailed examination of the data.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The full report, including all the data in table form, can be viewed\/downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Bibis-Settlements-Boom-March-November-2013-FINAL.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13856\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8monthsReportjpg.jpg\" alt=\"8monthsReportjpg\" width=\"1151\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8monthsReportjpg.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8monthsReportjpg-161x85.jpg 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8monthsReportjpg-330x175.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><u><strong>Key findings:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During these first 8 months of the new Netanyahu government, there has been a non-stop settlements construction and approval boom.<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>The most recent evidence of this came with the latest round of Palestinian prisoners released by\u00a0Israel, which was accompanied by\u00a0<b>the publication of tenders for 2,258 new units in settlements, and the promotion of plans for 2,487 new units in settlements.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>These tenders and approvals were just the latest symptoms of the longstanding trend. Overall, since the establishment of the current government on March 18th, 2013,\u00a0<b>tenders have been published for 3,472 new units in settlements, and plans have been promoted for no fewer than 8,943 new settlement units.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>These facts once again raise the very serious question about the motivations and intentions of Prime Minister Netanyahu with respect to peace, negotiations, and the two-state solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org\/entries\/new_peace_nowapn_report_bibis_settlements_boom_--_march-november_2013#.Un6KfPmmgdo\" target=\"_blank\">online here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">or download the report <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Bibis-Settlements-Boom-March-November-2013-FINAL.pdf\">including the detailed data and tables here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace Now Israel and Americans for Peace Now released a new report looking at the first 8 months of the Netanyahu government and its record regarding settlements. The key findings are summarized below, followed by a detailed examination of the data. The full report, including all the data in table form, can be viewed\/downloaded here&#8230;.  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-settlements-boom-of-the-first-8-months-of-netanyahus-government\" title=\"Read The Settlements Boom of the First 8 Months of Netanyahu&#8217;s Government\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1323],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-settlement-watch","tag-benjamin-netanyahu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}