Palestinian territories are impoverished and densely populated – ripe for the spread of coronavirus. Israel may have a practical as well as moral obligation to extend its vaccine program to them.
The president-elect is also likely to be less tolerant of Israel’s settlement expansion and the inroads Russia and Turkey have made into the Middle East.
Ontario’s new order in council adopting the IHRA definition on antisemitism risks stifling criticism of Israel.
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Ontario’s recent order-in-council adopting the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism has been lauded by some. However, critics fear that it could be used to curtail criticism of the Israeli government.
Vice President Biden with a U.S. delegation at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia in 2011.
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Biden and Trump are like night and day on foreign policy, and American global engagement would change radically under a Biden presidency. But actual Mideast policy might show only cosmetic changes.
These Palestinians aren’t happy with Trump’s Israel deal, which required Israel to make no territorial concessions. Gaza, Aug. 16, 2020.
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Israel and the United Arab Emirates weren’t at war, so their new deal is not really a peace accord. Nor does it satisfy the Palestinians, who need Arab nations to support their drive for statehood.
Israeli security forces clash with a Palestinian protesting the construction of Jewish settlements and a ‘separation wall,’ village of Ramallah, West Bank, Aug. 7, 2020.
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Mubarak held power for three decades, on the foundation of a personality cult.
A Palestinian reacts to tear gas fired by Israeli forces during protests against U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast initiative in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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The Israel-Palestine “peace” plan concocted by Donald Trump’s administration openly violates the principles of international law and, if implemented, would set a dangerous precedent.
Pondering peace in the Middle East or processing political problems at home?
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Long in the making, the US administration’s Middle East plan was quickly rejected by Palestinian leaders. It was hardly surprising, as they took no part in its drafting.
Netanyahu and Trump, on the separation wall in Bethlehem.
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Trump’s “deal of the century” is not a realistic plan to resolve a decades-old conflict, but an invitation to Israel to expand its territory at Palestine’s expense.
These days, the river barely makes it to its mouth in the Dead Sea.
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Mark Zeitoun, University of East Anglia e Muna Dajani, London School of Economics and Political Science
The holy river is used and abused so much that it barely reaches the Dead Sea these days.
A Palestinian protester throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with Israeli troops during demonstrations against the Israeli offensive on Gaza in November 2019.
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There’s little hope as we head into 2020 that Israel will negotiate in good faith with Palestinian leaders. Yet Israel will never be safe from attack until it does so.
A new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Naale, part of the Israeli government’s recent push to increase its presence in the disputed territory, Jan. 1, 2019.
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The US delighted Israel and outraged Palestinians by announcing it sees nothing illegal with Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Here, a brief history of this hotly disputed land.
Israeli authorities demolish water wells in the area around the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank city of Hebron.
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