Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Good News in NYTimes

Finally, some good news about Israel in the NYTimes:-

Separately, the Israeli organization Peace Now said Monday that the number of Israeli settlers living in occupied territory in the West Bank — not including East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed — increased in 2005 by about 7,000 to 250,000 settlers, even after the pullout of some 9,000 Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank last summer.

The settler population is increasing at 5.5 percent a year, Peace Now said, compared with a 1.8 percent for the overall Israeli population.

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