The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts A visual guide to the conflict and its regional impact on the Middle East December 20 2024 Israel-Hamas war Israeli curbs on Gaza water supplies are ‘acts of genocide’, rights agency says Human Rights Watch alleges attacks on infrastructure and repair...
Israel cannot allow an ever-growing number of Palestinian descendants to flood into its borders, as that would make the Jews a minority in an Arab majority state. There are already 22 Arab states within the Arab League.“Justice” does not require the one and only tiny Jewish state to turn...
Well, we in Israel, we don’t need a wakeup call, because Iran threatens us every day. Because despite the best of hope, and there were many hopes around the nuclear deal, this deal did not push war further away. It brought war ever closer to our borders. In Syria, Iran is trying ...
The Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Jordan on Saturday stressed the need to urge Israel to return to negotiations in order to reach a final settlement on the basis of a two-state solution to ensure the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines, with...
On Oct. 29, 1956, Israel made a preemptive attack on Egyptian territory and within a few days had conquered the Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsula, while Britain and France invaded the area of the Suez Canal. Israel eventually yielded to strong pressure from the United States, the USSR, ...
1967 Six-Day War Hopes for another decade of relative tranquillity were dashed with the escalation of Arab terrorist raids across the Egyptian and Jordanian borders, persistent Syrian artillery bombardment of agricultural settlements in northern Galilee and massive military build-ups by the ...
Without a return to those pre-1967 borders (plus a substantial injection of goodwill from Israel in ensuring unhindered passage between Gaza and the West Bank) no possibility exists of a viable Palestinian state ever emerging. And no goodwill, of course, will be forthcoming. Every Israeli leade...
The Palestinian citizens in Israel proper (“Israel proper” refers to Israel according to the pre-1967 borders, which excludes the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) have long been the focus of scholarship covering a variety of topics, including the evolution of their standing as a national ...
and voluntary nature, similar yet not identical to civic nationalism. Ethnic nationalism is indeed based on inherited elements—innate religion, descent, language, territory, etc., that are not subject to individual choice. However, each ethnic and sub-ethnic group re-interpret and re-implement ...