Reuters has a good feature story today on the Israeli settlement of Migron. The showdown over the fate of this so-called illegal outpost near the West Bank city of Ramallah is a big deal for the settlers, their Israeli opponents, the Palestinians and, potentially, peace process itself (or at least for the hopes of bringing something like a peace process back to life).
Here’s the radio piece about Migron we put on the air at the end of last month. What’s still not clear is how the Netanyahu government is going to come down on this thing. As the Reuters story explains, Bibi is stuck between the Israeli Supreme Court and the pro-settlement wing of his own party. The Obama administration would say there is a great deal at stake for the US here as well. But an election year is no time to talk about all that.
