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The silence of his left-wing partners and the sympathetic media challenges his efforts to link himself to the operation in the minds of potential voters. Jerusalem, August 18 – Israel’s caretaker prime minister voiced private concerns today that too much ...

The incident marks the quickest inducement of a yawn on the subject of Palestine since the Abraham Accords. Riyadh, August 17 – A diplomatic official from one of several Persian Gulf countries to establish formal ties with Israel began to express ...

“It’s a longtime problem,” agreed Abbig Hattub, assistant manager of a Jericho-area water park that has never cut back on its water use. Jericho, August 16 – A high-ranking functionary of Mahmoud Abbas’s government blamed Israel for exacerbating the shortage of ...

“Their straw man of Jewish assumptions and motives, derived from centuries of antisemitic indoctrination and their own fantasies of power, leads them to think Jews will cower and flee when violence confronts them.” Jabaliya Refugee Camp, August 15 – Members ...

“Does the importance of their suffering and their status as victims of injustice exist only while it can serve as leverage for the true cause, Palestine?” Chattanooga, August 11 – A man who campaigns for the recognition of indigenous status ...

by Every Single Palestinian Leader Ever Ramallah, August 11 – For more than a century, we Palestinians have fought the usurpation of our land. We have done nothing but fight that usurpation. And it shows. Robust national institutions? Nope. A functioning ...

“You can’t just not go backpacking around the world after you leave the army. I think there’s even a law. Is there a law? There must be a law.” Kibbutz S’de Eliyahu, August 10 – A twenty-one-year-old resident has defied ...

If unity requires you to set your agenda aside, then to hell with unity. Jerusalem, August 9 – Israel’s fractured politics calls for a party and candidate who can bridge the rifts that have condemned numerous consecutive governments to short-lived, ...

It was time to bring back the troops tasked with that mission. Washington, August 8 – A White House representative disclosed Monday a heretofore undiscussed factor behind the hasty American departure from Taliban-held Afghanistan last year, one that the administration ...

“We get much more political mileage out of killing our own children than killing theirs.” Gaza City, August 7 – Militant leaders in this coastal territory have come to appreciate that the propaganda value of dead Gazan children outweighs even Israeli ...