Unanswered questions after Netanyahu’s re-election
Just after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was re-elected, experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict met to determine what the vote means.
Israel shoots four Palestinians during protests calling for end to siege of Gaza
On March 30, tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza along the boundary fence with Israel on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the Great March of Return. They were also marking Land Day, the annual commemoration of Israel’s lethal suppression of protests against land confiscations in the Galilee in 1976.
Why Palestinians believe Israel is shifting the status quo in Jerusalem
US support for Israel and the extreme-right government’s settlement building will have long-term consequences for the city
Trump’s Golan Heights Declaration a Boon to Netanyahu
President Donald Trump met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Monday, and signed a proclamation to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Israeli Prime Minister Cuts Short White House Visit
Trump’s order on the Golan Heights is very clearly an attempt to make sure that that Netanyahu gets elected at all costs and that without Netanyahu, the U.S. -Israel alliances wouldn’t be the same.
Palestinians have no influence over elections that could decide their fate
Less than one in four Palestinians have the right to vote in Israeli elections, but the election will inevitably affect every single Palestinian.
EU-Arab League summit in Egypt is ‘insignificant, ceremonial’
The meeting of leaders from the EU and the Arab League in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh will likely be fruitless, experts say.
Israeli ‘centrism’ and what it means for Palestinians
“If there’s one thing Israeli politicians are agreed on, it is that there will be no independent sovereign Palestinian state,” Nadia Hijab, board president of al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think-tank, told Al Jazeera.
Palestinian president plans anti-Hamas measures as split widens
The decade-long Palestinian split looks set to deepen in the coming months, with president Mahmud Abbas poised to take multiple measures against Gaza to squeeze its Islamist rulers Hamas.
