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
Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed. Hamas immediately offered to release all Israeli hostages taken in the attack, demanding nothing in return, but Israel refused the deal.
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
US corporate media consistently muddy Israeli expansionism in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon through a combination of abstruse language and linguistic balms like “buffer zone” and “security zone.”
Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit.
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