An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the Israel-Hamas war, have regularly forced captured Palestinians like Shubeir to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield. ...
How Israel can reach peace with PalestiniansLeibovitz, Clement
News Item Two For a week now, Palestinians have had to deal with a new political reality. Their territories are now split between control by Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. About one and one-half million people live in Gaza; more than two million live in the West...
Palestinian suspects from the West Bank are tried in Israeli military courts that have been a longtime fixture of its open-ended occupation of the territory. Palestinians and human rights groups say the system almost always renders guilty verdicts. Israel says it pro...
It was first used in 1948, calling for a free Palestinian state for both Palestinians and Jews. For some, it is a call to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, but to others, including many Jewish groups, it is an antisemitic slogan. ...
Based on previous operations, at least some of the special forces who took part in the raid likely dressed like Palestinians and spoke fluent Arabic.
Segal in many ways had a simpler task than Ben Haim: he needed only to fuel the deep-seated fear and loathing that so many Jewish Israelis have for the Palestinians — in Israel and the occupied territories alike — to play into the hands of the right-wing government. He is not a ...
Israel continues to get military aid from America, and to be able to buy weapons from the UK. There’s no suggestion in the West that Israel, which continues to grab Palestinian land illegally in the West Bank and appears to have a plan to drive all 2.5 million Palestinians out of Gaza...
live with themselves if they share the land. These people feel guilty that they have Israel, and they need the Palestinians so they have someone to share the land with and assuage their guilt. It is the Israeli equivalent of Western “white guilt” and “reparations for slavery”/”...
was a sad, low-key affair for Palestinians. More than 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced by the fighting, and many arefacing starvation. About 34,000 people have been killed in Israel’s air bombardment and ground attacks on Gaza, accordin...