Occupation

International critics demonize Israel make a fundamental error in presenting it as evil. Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak: There is “something strange about the Palestinians using a tool last used 20 years ago. It has a similar question, framing, even similar time of year.”

The initiative to seek an advisory opinion was sparked by a report of the UNHRC’s Commission of Inquiry created in May 2021, when Netanyahu was in office

While ICJ advisory opinions are non-legally binding, experts noted that the documents can have a broad impact.

The latest call, made during a meeting of the ruling Fatah faction’s Revolutionary Council, came amid an upsurge in violence in the West Bank.

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

The internal deterioration of the Palestinian Authority with its decreasing legitimacy in the eyes of the Palestinian people is appearing more like a car with no steering wheel and failing breaks.

What worries human rights groups and critics in the West the most is an Israeli center-left government that is inclusive of Arabs and which might actually come to an agreement with the Palestinians.

Palestinians have said in the past that the land was owned by Palestinian families and leased temporarily to British Mandate authorities before 1948.

The activists belonged to the organization Palestine Action and protested the UK's role in the alleged Israeli occupation of the Palestinians.