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
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.”
After a rowdy protest outside a real estate event at Park East Synagogue, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely criticized for supporting the protest by condemning the sale of West Bank properties. But the criticisms don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.
As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and Palestinian leader, said the statement “indicates dangerous Israeli intentions of annexing 53% of the little Gaza Strip, and to prevent reconstruction of what Israel destroyed in Gaza.”
While Israeli settlers drive Palestinians from their land through violence, another, quieter expulsion continues through bureaucracy and law, signed by army generals, and approved by Israel's High Court of Justice.
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