For now, links to an article of commentary via Middle East Monitor and to two reports: from National Public Radio and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Scroll down for WEST BANK 12-17-25. Scroll down for UKRAINE and GAZA so far.) — MCM

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U.S. power, settler colonialism, and the UN: The political economy of impunity, by Ranjan Solomon | Middle East Monitor  Breaking from most members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, the United States declined to condemn illegal Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank and opposed briefings on Resolution 2334 — the legal instrument affirming the illegality of Israel’s settlement project under international law. READ MORE . . .

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Israel is seizing an ancient historical site to turn it into a tourist site. Reported by Hadeel Al-Shalchi | NPR  Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians. Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM DEC. 18  Israel accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing in West Bank, displacing 44,000 Palestinians. From Middle East Monitor. Israel has been accused of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the illegally  occupied West Bank, displacing tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in a sweeping military operation aimed at permanently altering the demographic and geographic reality of the territory, according to a detailed report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. READ MORE . . .

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