I'd hate to see that bastard Pollard go free, but it's hard to justify keeping him if there's even a chance that the release could save lives: “Officials in Jerusalem are examining an initiative in which the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria will be...
israel/palestine
If you are a Facebook fan or friend of Nicholas Kristof, and it happened to show up in your newsfeed (or, if you were set to "live feed" and you.
I'm guessing that this is going to make it hard to treat the settlements as "bargaining chips."
I agree with Ackerman and Yglesias that defining "pro-Israel" on the basis of belief in a particular narrative of national foundation is ridiculous and absurd. In addition to being practically nonsensical, such a metric would serve to throw a blanket on genuine historical scholarship of...
Spencer:But he [Avigdor Lieberman] also had a formulation that I haven't seen before: First of all, we really don’t have any intention to change the demographic balance in Judea and.
... Israeli settlements expanded. This make today like just about every other day since July 1967.
Short term, tactical thinking:When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and '80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity....
I simply do not understand how anyone could believe that the Israeli military operations in Gaza would result in the overthrow of Hamas:If there is any significant disenchantment with Hamas.
Thank God for those bunker busters:After shoveling sand from their tunnel Thursday, the smugglers hoisted the prized cargo out of the narrow shaft: bags of potato chips -- a minor.
It's irrelevant whether Hamas fighters avoided contact with the IDF because of orders, or because they were afraid. The answer, not that it matters, is both; guerrillas should be afraid of conventional soldiers in armored vehicles supported by artillery and air power. War, in spite...
Watch Frum claim that the West Bank is not under occupation, and then watch Frum get his ass handed to him. In addition to the substantial portions of the West.
I diavlogged with Eli Lake last week: