Tag: Israel

Israel/Palestine. Palestinian president, Israeli defence minister hold rare talks (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has met Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank in the first high-level meeting between...

Israel/Palestine. Abbas, Israeli DM Hold First High-level Talks in Years (VoA)

By Associated Press Israel's defense minister held talks late Sunday with the Palestinian president in the first high-level meeting between the two sides in years, officials...

Israel/Middle East . From the Second Lebanon War to Regional War (BESA Center)

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen The Second Lebanon War was probably the last time Israel was going to be able to focus on fighting on a...

Israel/Holy See. Israel and the Holy See (BESA Center)

Michael A. Calvo For many years, the Jewish people of Israel have been effectively paying the taxes of the Catholic Church and other churches in...

Israel/USA. Can Naftali Bennett reset relations with Washington? (Al Jazeera)

Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a notoriously difficult relationship with former Democratic US President Barack Obama. Many saw him as a strong supporter...

West Bank. Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager in occupied West Bank (Al Jazeera)

A 15-year-old Palestinian has been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank as Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp near Nablus. The Palestinian...

Afghanistan/Israel. The Taliban Victory as a Victory of Faith (BESA Center)

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen The American defeat in Afghanistan will have a direct impact on Israel. Like the pseudo-government foisted by the Americans on...

Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza pledge to defy Israel to protest at border (Al Jazeera)

Ali Adam Palestinian groups in Gaza have pledged to continue protests along the border to pressure Israel to remove its blockade and to allow for...

Israel. Israeli inquiry into deadly Mount Meron stampede begins hearings (Al Jazeera)

An Israeli government commission investigating a deadly accident at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April held its first hearing, almost four months after the...

Israel. The Reform That Will Kill Israeli Agriculture (BESA Center)

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen Agriculture is a strategic national asset in Israel and its existence cannot be subject to short-term cost-benefit considerations. Without an extensive agricultural...

Egypt/Israel/Hamas – Report: Egypt seeking to avoid renewed escalation between Israel and Hamas (Middle East Eye)

Egypt has made contact with Israel and leaders of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to prevent renewed military escalation, according to a...

Israel/Palestine – In Israel, the cold-blooded killing of Palestinians is met with silence (Middle East Eye)

Gideon Levy Superficially, things are relatively quiet these days in the Israeli-occupied territories. There are no Israeli casualties, almost no attacks in the West Bank and certainly...

Israel – From Tribal Politics to a Territorial Democracy (BESA Center)

Knesset chamber, image via Wikipedia Shmuel Sandler The State of Israel is in a political crisis that reflects deep social rifts. At the Herzliya Conference in 2015, then-president Reuven Rivlin noted that demographic...

Israel – FM Yair Lapid: A Shepherd Without a Herd (BESA Center)

Israeli FM Yair Lapid, image via Wikimedia Commons Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen In these early days of the new Israeli government, FM Yair Lapid is...

Israel/UAE – Secretive Israel-UAE oil deal endangers prized Eilat corals (Al Jazeera)

A clandestine oil deal struck last year as part of the historic agreement establishing formal diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates...

Palestine/Israel – Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza (HRW)

Rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on the evening of May 11, 2021. © 2021 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP Palestinian armed groups’ rocket and mortar...