A new settlement, thousands of units approved, and a blatant move towards annexation of the West Bank.

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is scheduled to vote on Sunday whether to support a draft law that would allow the country’s administrative affairs courts to rule on conflicts between Israelis living in settlements and state authorities operating in the territories.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised settler leaders that construction would not be limited to the blocs and that it could be based on their priority list, said Avi Ro’eh who heads the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria.

“It is the total transformation of Israel,” writes Noam Sheizaf.

“After 50 years of Israeli war crimes on Palestinian land, the world has to act and ban Israeli settlement goods,” writes Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.

“It’s a moment of clarification that is forcing Israelis to be more honest about where we are heading,” said Ehud Eiran, a professor of political science at Haifa University. “There’s a growing belief that this reflects a permanent reality, rather than the stories we told ourselves that it’s a temporary occupation.”

“Where was the Israeli Left when the army tore down a joint Palestinian-Jewish protest camp, or when the police broke the arm of a Jewish American activist in Jerusalem?” asks Amitai Ben-Abba.

Hasan Safadi, who was accused of affiliation with a proscribed organization and visiting an enemy state, will remain imprisoned without charge for another six months.

“The ‘Jewish state’ has always demanded that Palestinians accept, legally and morally, that their belonging to the land is second to that of Jews,” writes Amjad Iraqi.

Car tires were slashed and anti-Arab slogans were spray-painted in a suspected hate crime in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem overnight on Friday.

“Since 2000, the United States and the rest of the international community have understood the implementation of UNSCR 242 in the context of the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip alongside Israel,” writes Khaled Elgindy.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could hold direct peace talks for the first time in seven years, Israeli Channel 2 said on Thursday night in a report on a three-way Washington meeting with US President Donald Trump scheduled next month.

Some 400 Likud members attended a book launch by a historian who says Israeli Arabs ‘excel at evading service to the state’ and ‘consume more than they produce.’

Qatar politely sent some Hamas leaders packing after several nations, including Saudi Arabia, cut diplomatic ties with Doha.

Sheikh Mohammed says Hamas political leaders have a presence in country to promote Palestinian “reconciliation”.