Celebrations over high voter turnout at the Joint List and Mansour Abbas' UAL headquarters have given way to frustration and concern. While Abbas is keeping his options open, the Joint List has offered to work with Eisenkot to unseat Netanyahu.
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Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who has sweeping powers over Israeli rule in the West Bank, defines Israel's plan as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, the word he uses — “hachra’ah” — carries a stronger political meaning than “decisive.”
The West Bank is far more strategically and ideologically vital to Israel than any war it is fighting-it is the area in which Israel has the most longstanding, coherent and unchallenged goal: as much land for Jews with as few Palestinians as possible
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way that society is doomed,” one said
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Judging from victories BDS appears to be racking up it seems that finally, this strategy based on sustained and escalating pressure on Israel in all fields – academic, cultural, economic and military – is starting to have a real effect.
Since October, 890 Gazans have been killed by Israeli fire despite the supposed 'cease-fire.' Forty-two of them were police officers whose job it is to maintain some semblance of order in a tormented and fractured society
Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred thirty-seven international N.G.O.s. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on without antibiotics, or even chairs for patients.
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