UK wants to punish Israel’s settlements, but Palestinians will pay the price - comment
At the very least, Britain should acknowledge that economic pressure on Israel will have consequences beyond the people it intends to punish.
At the very least, Britain should acknowledge that economic pressure on Israel will have consequences beyond the people it intends to punish.
Israel built extraordinary institutions to defend itself in war. Now it must build institutions capable of securing the peace and shaping its future.
Kurds are the largest unrecognized nation on earth. Not unrepresented, which is a lesser condition. There is no seat, no flag at Turtle Bay, no ministry anywhere that receives our envoys as envoys.
Stability in Sweida will not come from creating new borders, but from building a new relationship between Sweida and the Damascus government.
The Iran war has weakened Tehran, but Trump may struggle to secure a nuclear deal or reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Britain and Israel have genuine strategic interests in common even when their governments disagree sharply, but diplomatic relations require reciprocity.
Governments cannot simultaneously tell Jews that they are not responsible for Israel while adopting rhetoric that helps activists collapse the distinction between the two.
When I think of Charlie, I often think of him as a heavyweight boxer in the ring, taking personal blows while the crowd around him cheered for his defeat. Knocked down time and again, he would get up
It is also symptomatic that this attack came at exactly the same time as Netanyahu was declaring that the security services had not deemed it necessary to wake him even as warning signs multiplied.
I am not running away from Israel or from the complexity of life. I am moving toward a responsibility: helping ensure that Israel remains a meaningful part of Jewish life in one American community.
London is banning trade with Israeli settlements. The secret Hezbollah case shows how much of the UK-Israel relationship the British public never sees.