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What Obama Hasn’t Changed About the Mid East Peace Process

Forgive my cynicism, but you will not see me holding my breath in anticipation of a comprehensive and just conclusion to the Arab-Israeli conflict, not this time around, not even

Netanyahu calls for resuming settlement activities quietly

Israeli media sources said that the Israeli premier's office asked the cabinet ministers not to make statements about the end of settlement freeze and demanded the right-wing parties to cancel

Israel kills as it talks

Israeli occupation forces have killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank in what eyewitnesses and neighbours described as "a cold-blooded murder" and "extrajudicial" execution.

On Jewish loyalty

Gilad atzmon considers the meaning of “loyalty” in Jewish discourse, against the background of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as an exclusively Jewish state

Knesset committee recommends law set to arm more settlers

An Israeli Knesset interior committee recommended that Interior Minister Eli Yishai and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich amend regulations for granting arms to Israeli settlers in the West Bank

Who is the Israeli state loyal to?

Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal

Israel: Second-Class Citizens

Should Israel be encouraged to enact legislation guaranteeing equal rights for all of its citizens as part of any peace agreement with the Palestinians?

Arab MPs urge UNICEF to probe Israel’s violations against Palestinian children

The Arab Knesset members called in a letter sent to the UNICEF and the child safety council for investigating the incarceration conditions of Palestinian children in Israeli jails, especially after

Olympia Food Co-op removes Israeli goods from shelves; first US store to institute boycott

The Olympia Food Co-op Board of Directors has decided to boycott Israeli goods at their two locations in Olympia, Washington. At a July 15th meeting packed with Co-op members, the

Deputy Knesset speaker desecrates Aqsa

Danny Danon, the deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament (the Knesset), went on a desecration tour of the holy Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday escorted by dozens of armed policemen.