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Opinion Awkwardness Is Reuven Rivlin’s Gift to the Left
Newly elected Israeli President Reuven Rivlin with Benjamin Netanyahu / Getty Images Is Reuven Rivlin’s ascendancy to the post of president good news for left-wing Israelis? Yes, but not for the reasons most left-wing commentators are suggesting. Progressives should cheer Rivlin’s election not because he supports equal rights for Israeli Arabs or because he wants…
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Breaking News Human Rights Watch Brands Videotaped Israeli Killings ‘Apparent War Crime’
Human Rights Watch labeled the shooting deaths of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli soldiers during a West Bank protest an Israeli war crime. In a report titled “Killing of Children Apparent War Crime” published Monday, the human rights group said the soldiers used live ammunition during the May 15 demonstration in the town of Beitunia….
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Breaking News Lapid: Yesh Atid Will Topple Government That Attempts Annexation
Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said his centrist Yesh Atid party will topple Israel’s governing coalition should it move to annex any Israeli West Bank settlements. Lapid’s declaration came at the beginning of a barb-filled session at the annual Herzliya Conference, an Israeli policy conference hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, an Israeli university. At…
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Culture No, Amos Oz, We Shouldn’t Call Settlers Jewish ‘Neo-Nazis’
Amos Oz, probably the most widely acclaimed of all living Israeli authors, has been both criticized and defended for saying several weeks ago that Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria engaged in acts of violence and vandalism toward Arabs were “a monster that needs to be called what it is: Hebrew neo-Nazi groups.” Not all…
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Breaking News Netanyahu: Settlement Freeze in West Bank Due to American Pressure
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he suspended construction in West Bank settlements because of American pressure, an Israeli news site reported. Netanyahu told a group of settler leaders that the activity of the planning council of Israel’s Civil Administration, the body responsible for authorizing construction in the West Bank, had been partially suspended because…
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Breaking News Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Man Wearing Explosive Vest in West Bank
Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years. Border police guarding a busy junction near the Palestinian city of Nablus were suspicious about the man who…
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Opinion The Deceptive Style of Settlement Leader Dani Dayan
“My religion is Zionism,” Dani Dayan says. It is hard to know quite what to make of him. Is he, as Yariv Oppenheimer, director of Peace Now suggests, the enemy? “His agenda is the same as the most fanatic right-wing settlers. But he has this ability to hide it and to speak with the public…
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Breaking News Right-Wing Lawmakers Push for Israel To Annex Parts of Occupied Palestinian Land
Right-wing Israeli lawmakers are calling on the government to annex about 90 Jewish settlements built on occupied West Bank land, with one of them saying it was retaliation for the collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians a month ago. While Israel has built dozens of enclaves since capturing the land in a 1967 war,…
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