Israel and Palestine
When all criticism looks like hostility, both sides lose to their extremes - opinion
Israel must distinguish between legitimate criticism and campaigns aimed at denying its legitimacy – and its serious critics have a responsibility to make the same distinction
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Only 17% of Israelis, 21% of Palestinians believe peaceful coexistence is possible, poll finds
Qatari official: War in Gaza was the ‘nucleus’ for Iran’s attacks on the Gulf, pushes for deal
Court orders return for Jalud Palestinian families home after extremist settlers drove them out
Supporting Israeli and Palestinian civil society
Peace is both top-down, but also bottom-up.
The Olso Agreement was assassinated with Rabin
We will never know whether Rabin could have succeeded, but his assassination removed from the field a major player who could have made a difference.
Supreme Court orders government to permit Gazan women treatment in Israel
"Using a patient in desperate need of life-saving medical treatment as a 'pressure lever' is not compatible with the values of the State of Israel."
Five times SodaStream bubbled over in the headlines
“The Israeli government did the moral and honorable thing to grant work permits to our employees, who can now provide for their families and also prove that coexistence is possible.”
Palestinian analyst: Israel telling Hamas senior leaders are targets
Dr. Adnan Abu Amer, an analyst for Israeli matters in Gaza, claimed that the attack against a Hamas post with senior Hamas officials present at the time “is a message that Israel has the upper hand.”
Palestinians launch campaign to foil 'Pay-for-Slay' bill
Kadoura Fares, a senior Fatah official and head of Palestinian Prisoners Club, said that the Israeli bill was aimed at “undermining the Palestinians’ spirit of resistance."
PA minister: Khan al-Ahmar school will defeat the occupation
“Today we say to the world that this school is like Palestine and the Palestinian revolution,” PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam said at the opening ceremony for the school.
IfNotNow gatecrash new Birthright group, go on east Jerusalem tour
IfNotNow participants state that they knew they could not go to east Jerusalem with Birthright, so were leaving the group to do so.
A last chance for Mr. Abbas
According to the Defense Ministry, the PA in 2017 paid $198 million to the so-called “martyrs’ families fund” and an additional $160m. to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
EU: The PA did not refuse to cooperate with us
According to Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern, the PA is not cooperating with the Europeans, and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah refused to give an accounting to the EU of the use of the EU funds to the PA
