But many of Turkey's complaints, such as over settlement-building in the West Bank, are hardly controversial.
The new defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, opposes any curbs on settlement-building.
Currently, there is no recourse for businesses without providers doing what is called "settlement-free peering, " says Kapela.
Barack Obama has given up trying to force Mr Netanyahu to halt settlement-building in the West Bank.
Less than a kilometre away there was a Jewish settlement - I don't know what its name was.
Yet no American administration, bar briefly that of George Bush senior, has ever penalised Israel for its settlement-building.
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The furor over the factual details and legal theories--followed by the inevitable cash settlement--figures to be a battle royale.
But the Israeli leader - who also came under pressure to rein in Israeli settlement-building - refrained from endorsing the idea.
And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.
And having upset the Obama administration by rejecting its demand for a complete halt to settlement-building, he later announced a unilateral, partial, ten-month suspension.
Some 57km over the mountains from Shipka lies yet another historic settlement - Veliko Tarnovo, the "City of the Tsars" - famous for being the medieval seat of Bulgarian power.
Talks between the G7 industrialized nations and Russia - Serbia's sole friend and perhaps the only country that can draw Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into an acceptable political settlement - had been going well.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the present prime minister, strikes a deal not only with Hamas but responds to Mr Abbas's pleas for a freeze on Jewish settlement-building in the West Bank with a surge in construction.
But after a night of negotiations, Mr Woodford's lawyer told the employment tribunal judge that they had reached a settlement - likely to be worth millions - and that final agreement would depend on ratification by the Olympus board at a meeting on 8 June.
George Bush's administration, which made periodic but mealy-mouthed complaints to Mr Sharon and then Mr Olmert about settlement-building, objected more vigorously to Israel's fencing in the more salient of the blocks, at Ariel and Maale Adumim, which is why the barrier round these areas is incomplete.
Mr Maude said he was "completely committed" to securing a deal with all six unions but would not allow the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) - which has said it will return to the negotiating table but has so far not approved the settlement - to "veto" reform.
Mr Netanyahu has long championed settlements, but has also said he would be prepared to make "painful concessions" - alluding to some settlement withdrawals - in a final peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Many observers interpreted that as a willingness from Mr Sharon - an architect of the whole settlement project - to dismantle settlements, but it is not clear how many he will dispose of.
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But in fact there was already a tiny settlement here - a small village of ethnic Germans exiled from their homes on the Volga river by Stalin.
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In stark contrast, Silvio Berlusconi continued to be troubled by his past, with press reports of his 36m euro-per-year divorce settlement with his ex-wife, Veronica Lario.
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We expect one or more lawsuits to be filed over this matter, with a class-action suit likely, though (and be sure to note this is not legal advice) most owners would be better served accepting the proposed gift-card settlement than becoming involved in a long-term suit that might ultimately prove to be of little value.
For my purposes today, I want to construe "financial infrastructure" very broadly, to include not only the "hardware" components of that infrastructure--the physical systems on which market participants rely for the quick and accurate execution, clearing, and settlement of transactions--but also the associated "software, " including the statutory, regulatory, and contractual frameworks and the business practices that govern the actions and obligations of market participants on both sides of each transaction.
Also included is a new Department of Defense (DOD) General Provision that would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to receive and retain payment in-kind for the settlement of the longstanding A-12 aircraft contract litigation.
In March, a judge approved a class-action settlement for people who owned or leased a 2003-2009 Civic Hybrid.
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The case garnered world-wide attention because, before the settlement, a court-ordered injunction on U.S. sales of the BlackBerry appeared imminent.
Chevron managed to get this case removed to Ecuador on foreign non conveniens grounds, ending what might have appeared to be a slam-dunk settlement, and since then has fought a scorched-earth battle to prevent any judgment there from being enforced outside Ecuador.
Merck has said it hopes to avoid a mega-settlement by fighting every case out at trial.
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