Nearly a month into its third war with Hezbollah since 2006, Israel has expanded its ground and air operations in Lebanon and may yet launch a fullscale invasion of southern Lebanon. As Defence Minister Israel Katz indicated, Israel intends to create a buffer zone in territory south of the Litani River, a distance of some […]
Israel’s security cabinet, acting on a resolution proposed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defence Minister Israel Katz, announced earlier this month that 11 new settlements will be built and 8 illegal outposts will be legalized in the West Bank. Smotrich, a settler himself and an ardent champion of the settlement movement beyond the pre-1967 […]