Land, Property Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Apartheid Israel breaking settlement records, says Peace Now (Reuters) Reuters - Israel's government broke all its settlement-building records in 2011, diminishing prospects for establishing a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank, Israel's anti-settlement activist group "Peace Now" said Tuesday. link to us.rd.yahoo.com Peace Now: Israel began building 1,850 new houses in West Bank in 2011 Settlement watchdog says figures exclude East Jerusalem, which in 2011 witnessed the highest number of construction plans in a decade. link to www.haaretz.com Haridim planning new settlement east of Jerusalem The ultraorthodox Jews, the Haridim, are planning to build a new settlement to the east of occupied Jerusalem, United Arab Emirates Al-Ittihad newspaper said on Sunday. link to www.palestine-info.co.uk Israel to make 60 more Palestinians homeless According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli authorities notified seven families in the Palestinian village of Umm al Khair yesterday that their houses will be demolished because they lack Israeli-issued building permits. 60 people will be left homeless. link to www.alternativenews.org US millionaire Kenneth Abramowitz funds settlers linked to attacks on IDF, Alex Kane The narrative that Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition is "cracking down" on those wild West Bank settlersis falling apart with Haaretz's revelation that the leader of Netanyahu's political party passed on information about Israeli military movements to settlers seeking to block moves against outposts. What's more is that a separate Haaretz  investigation published over the weekend reveals that Kenneth Abramowitz, a New York-based millionaire and the national chairman of American Friends of Likud, founded an organization linked to recent settler attacks on the Israeli military. Abramowitz is also a board member for the major US fundraiser for the Israeli military, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. In addition, Abramowitz is a major donor to Likud Knesset members Yisrael Katz and Yuli Edelstein. link to mondoweiss.net Palestine's farmers: Refusing to Die in Silence A new organization in the West Bank, Refusing to Die in Silence, offers support to the Palestinian farmers who face violent attacks from Jewish settlers as they attempt to harvest their olives. link to www.alternativenews.org Municipality working illegally in East Jerusalem According to residents of the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya, the Jerusalem municipality has begun working, illegally, in the village this morning. link to www.alternativenews.orgViolence and Aggression Youth 'clash with forces' in north Jenin village JENIN (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces clashed with youth in a north Jenin village on Monday afternoon after military vehicles deployed to the area, locals told Ma'an. Israeli military jeeps spread out through Zububa village adjacent to the Salem checkpoint, and youth pelted stones and empty bottles at the forces, who returned tear gas and sound grenades, residents said.