How liberal critics failed Israel
If you listen to some prominent liberal critics of Israel, you’d think that liberalism in Israel is in a deep coma.
If you listen to some prominent liberal critics of Israel, you’d think that liberalism in Israel is in a deep coma.
Last Monday night after dinner, after the dishes were cleared, I sat in my dining room with Mark Rosenblum and asked him the question I’d long been meaning to ask: Why don’t you just give up?
The United States raised concerns with Israel over its approval of 147 new West Bank settler homes and its decision to advance plans for 949 other units.
Israel plans to declare legal four unauthorized West Bank settler outposts, a court document showed on Thursday, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the region to try to restart peace talks.
Israel\’s Defense Ministry approved the construction of 90 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
Two new settler outposts have been erected in the West Bank, with the approval of municipal authorities, Peace Now says.
The evacuation of all 50 Jewish families in Israel’s Migron outpost was completed on Sunday evening without major incident. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the successful and peaceful evacuation—but vowed that his government would continue to strengthen Jewish communities in the West Bank.
The home of Peace Now Settlement Watch director Hagit Ofran was vandalized with threatening graffiti.
The fence outside the Jerusalem offices of Peace Now was spray-painted with threatening graffiti.
Jerusalem police arrested a suspect in the vandalism and bomb threat at the city\’s offices of Peace Now.