Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Joint List, a coalition of three Arab political parties with six seats in Israel’s parliament, ignited outrage recently when he posted a video on his Facebook page urging Israeli Arabs in the security forces not to serve in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Standing near the Damascus […]
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement earlier this month, Israel’s first with an Arab nation. The landmark accord, signed in Jerusalem on April 1, was hailed as a “significant and historic milestone” by the co-signer, Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai. It emerged after five months of negotiations and nearly two […]
Ten months after being appointed to the highest office in the land, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s eight-party coalition government is wobbling and living on borrowed time, having lost its wafer-thin majority in parliament at a fraught moment when Israel is coping with an upsurge of terrorism. Since March 22, 12 Israelis and two foreign workers, […]
General Aviv Kohavi, the chief of staff of Israel’s armed forces, disclosed on April 4 that Israeli forces have foiled 10 terrorist plots in the last two weeks. During the course of Israel’s operations, five Islamic Jihad gunmen in the West Bank town of Jenin were killed and dozens of Palestinians planning attacks were captured. […]
Paul O’Brien, the director of Amnesty International’s branch in the United States, has belatedly come clean, though some will sharply question his sincerity. In a letter a few days ago, he issued an apology to 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who had rightfully condemned his patronizing and willfully malicious comment suggesting […]
A fresh wave of deadly terrorist attacks have washed over Israel this month, in the most serious outbreak of terrorism in more than a decade. Several of the perpetrators have been Arab citizens of Israel, in what should be seen as a worrisome sign of their dissatisfaction with their lot in Israeli society. The other […]
A budding strategic alignment aimed at countering and containing Iran and its allies is emerging in the Middle East. At the historic two-day Negev summit in Israel, which ended on March 28 after 18 hours of deliberations, the U.S. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of four Sunni Arab countries discussed the formation of […]
A former Israeli cabinet minister and a Palestinian from a prominent Palestinian family are promoting a two-state solution in the form of a confederation between Israel and a future Palestinian state. Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini discussed their plan in a Zoom talk on March 21 sponsored by Americans for Peace Now. As Israel’s deputy […]
The Israeli media claims that Israel bombed Iran’s fleet of drones, or unmanned airplanes, in a major air strike in Iran last month. The news was first reported three days ago by Al Mayadeen, a television station in Lebanon linked to Hezbollah. Dailies in Israel, ranging from Haaretz to The Jerusalem Post, picked up the story. […]
Israel has inserted itself as a mediator in Russia’s three-week war with Ukraine. With the blessing of Ukraine and the United States, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Russia recently to discuss the hostilities with Russian President Vladimir Putin and gauge whether Israel can bring the two warring sides to the negotiating table. Since then, Bennett has […]