Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed resuming peace negotiations with the Palestinians but with the initial focus on identifying those Jewish settlements that Israel would keep and be allowed to expand, an Israeli official said on Tuesday according to Reuters. The proposal was rejected by both the Israeli right, which opposes any concessions on settlements in the West Bank, and the PLO’s Saeb Erekat, who said that it was “a request to continue illegal settlement construction without Palestinian consent.”

Israel is seeking a hefty surge in annual security assistance from Washington and has begun preliminary talks with the US administration on a long-term package that would provide up to $45 billion in grant aid through 2028.

Lara Friedman from Americans for Peace Now gives an update on the status of several bills in Congress that seek to defend Israeli settlements and weigh in on Iran.

Government response to High Court petition shows that hundreds of square meters belonging to the Samsara family were mistakenly declared state lands in 1983 and transferred to the Shim’a settlement for its expansion.

Israel’s plan to relocate dozens of Bedouin villages will kill any remaining hopes for two-state solution, analysts say.

The municipal council of Qarawat Bani Hassan was not warned that their water supply was going to be nearly shut off for days, and attempts to get answers from Israel, through the Palestinian Authority, did not bear any fruit.

While the exclusion of Palestinian cab drivers from a Jerusalem megaplex is illegal and immoral, it is just the tip of the iceberg in a city that constantly tries to erase Palestinian existence.

“For years now young Palestinian men have found themselves the targets of groups of Jewish youths roaming the streets of West Jerusalem on weekend nights. As warm weather returns, so are the attacks. One such attack raises the question: who are the police protecting?” asks Aviv Tatarsky.

It’s 2015 and Israeli peace groups still refuse to talk about the mass dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, including those who became Israeli citizens. Tom Mehager says it is time for a real conversation about the right of return.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revoked his decision to separate Palestinian and Israeli bus passengers traveling to the territories following an international outcry about apartheid, as well as harsh criticism in Israel.

After years of a complete ban, Israel began allowing transit of goods produced and grown in Gaza in the West Bank in late 2014. To understand how the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) decides which goods may exit Gaza and which may not, GISHA submitted a Freedom of Information Application on the subject. There was zero reference to security in the entire response.

Some of the passages were said to have been equipped with railroad tracks and communications rooms.

A Palestinian state requires many things in order to be viable: economic opportunity, territorial contiguity, natural resources, and working institutions. For a people intent on attaining self-determination, it behooves the Palestinians, as well as the international community, to ensure a smooth transition process after Abbas.

Senior Likud lawmaker Gilad Erdan was confirmed as a minister on Monday, after a week of uncertainty regarding the role he would fill in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new cabinet.

The ministers comprising Israel’s 34th government are the most right wing ever, almost entirely oppose the two-state solution, and have a rich history of legislative attacks on human rights organizations and democratic institutions.