While the Israel Anti-Boycott bill was introduced in March and received considerable media attention, partly due to the ACLU’s opposition, many Democrats remain reluctant to take a stance on the legislation impacting Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be meeting here Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump, the first time the two have met since Trump came to Israel in May. Senior Israeli and American officials noted that the meeting, which is scheduled to last an hour, will deal with the Iranian issue and with Trump’s efforts to advance the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

“America routinely offers Israel impunity and rewards. Towards Palestine, it offers only threats. If this White House is serious about peace, it’s time to show it,” writes Hanan Ashrawi.

“Hamas says it’s finally ready for a reconciliation deal, but questions remain as to whether it will follow through,” writes Daoud Kuttab.

The PA president is set to meet Trump to rally his support for two states, and will have to stall before embracing compromise with a group that has vowed to destroy Israel.

“Media sensationalism reinforces the populist ‘there’s no partner for peace’ attitude. Have a closer look at what Yahya Sinwar actually said,” writes Ronit Marzan.

“As the pro-peace camp has shrunk into oblivion, human rights groups have become the only real anti-occupation force in Israel today. That has made them uncomfortably political,” writes Michael Omer-Man.

“While [Israeli far-right MK] Bezalel Smotrich talks of expulsions, Yoav Mordechai, coordinator of government activities in the territories, makes expulsions happen,” writes Amira Hass.

In 2009, Yesh Din submitted a groundbreaking petition to the High Court of Justice demanding the court instruct the State to stop all mining and quarry activities in the West Bank. The position paper “The Great Drain” demonstrates how, as a result of the petition’s rejection, the Israeli quarrying industry in the West Bank has expanded significantly.

“While Israel proceeds along its merry way, each day building more settlements, demolishing more Palestinian homes, dishing out more hardships to an embittered captive people, far from being the secure and stable dream Netanyahu envisioned, it is seething cauldron waiting for the next explosion,” writes Jim Zogby.

Last Wednesday, Israeli authorities bulldozed a two-story, two-apartment building to the ground, leaving eight people, four of them minors, homeless.

Some 19 million cubic metres of wastewater from Israeli settlements flows through the occupied West Bank each year.

“Israel has been systematically revoking citizenship from its Bedouin citizens without as much as telling them. Is this a harbinger of things to come?” asks Orly Noy.

Israel’s separation wall will surround the village on nearly all sides, which will separate its villagers from some 250 acres of agricultural land.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday night unveiled a plan to bolster Israel’s constitutional laws at the expense of the Supreme Court.

Given the troubled state of Gaza’s existing power grid and a chronic lack of electricity, alternative methods of producing energy could be a literal lifeline for the two million residents of the Strip.