Throughout the history of the occupation, Israel has initiated most of the legal and physical barriers that keep Palestinians out of so-called Israeli areas as “temporary” measures, often during emergencies, but never removed them.
U.S. military aid to Israel isn’t meant to be used to demolish Palestinian homes.
Bringing the Palestinian dominated Joint List into a governing coalition would finally put an end to Netanyahu’s reign but some Israeli MK’s don’t want anything to do with “the Arabs.”
With Israel’s third election in less than a year upcoming, Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to desperate measures to avoid going to jail.
Trump’s plan for Middle East peace isn’t just a giveaway to the Israeli right-wing. It will also have negative impacts on U.S. regional partners.
The disinformation campaign against a new United Nations database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.
The time may have finally arrived for the Palestinians to disabuse themselves of the hope that the status quo Arab political order could help them.
Arab and Palestinian leaders should stop the two-state charade and move toward a new paradigm of dignity and basic freedoms for the Palestinian people as human beings.
This year, three foreign policy issues tightly linked to U.S. domestic politics stand out.
The UAE joined the Arab League statement rejecting the proposal, yet UAE officials in DC applauded it and attended the launch event at the White House.
The Trump administration’s new Israel-Palestine plan, which endorses nearly everything Israel wants, is not a peace plan at all.
Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel’s own violent history.
There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.
The U.S. may have exacerbated the power imbalance further in Israel’s favor but it will not have compelled Palestinians to abandon their own rights and freedoms.
In the current political reality, Israeli annexation of the West Bank is the best gift opponents of the occupation can hope for.
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
Israel must address the question of whether the original idea of the Zionist movement of a state that is both Jewish and democratic is not deeply oxymoronic.
The Court could also issue a formal ruling on whether it has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes in the Occupied Territories, thereby removing ambiguity regarding a key Israeli government argument against it.
DMFI says it seeks to promote progressive values, but its leaders have in the past attacked and worked to suppress progressive values when it comes to the Israel issue.
For supporters of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, the best outcome from that debate is one that maintains the status quo, the same outcome if the debate never takes shape.
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