“Israel’s peace camp, instead of attacking Trump for saying that the settlements are not an obstacle to peace, should change its strategy and underline the damage being inflicted by the prolonged Israeli occupation on the supremacy of private ownership,” writes Akiva Eldar.

“The Settlement Regulation Law passed on Monday night leaves Jordan in the lurch, poses a fresh challenge to the stability of the troubled kingdom and puts more pressure on the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty,” writes Ben Lynfield.

In an unusually harsh statement, the European Union warned Israel on Tuesday that the Settlements Bill “entrenched a one state reality” and that with its passage, the Knesset had crossed into dangerous territory.

Despite the enthusiasm of politicians on the Right for increased Israeli control over Judea and Samaria following the election of US President Donald Trump, a significant majority of Jewish citizens are against annexing large parts of these territories, a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) has found.

A Palestinian landowner shares her story of loss and hope.

“After nearly three weeks in office, there is growing consensus in the White House that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will require extensive deliberations and consultations with key lawmakers and U.S. allies before a decision on how to proceed, according to people familiar with the administration’s thinking,” write Luke Baker and Matt Spetalnick.

Press secretary declines to comment on controversial measure passed days after Washington sounded wary tone on settlement expansion.

“The Palestinian leadership has failed thus far to establish direct channels of communication with the White House, but Jordan’s King Abdullah II may have succeeded in transmitting at least one of its messages to President Donald Trump,” writes Shlomi Eldar.

A recently approved apartment building in a West Bank settlement was reportedly funded by an organization headed by David Friedman, US President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel.

“If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice [but to halt security coordination]; it would not be my fault,” Abbas told France’s Senate during a visit to Paris, according to a Reuters report. This threat does not appear in the official text of Abbas’s speech posted on Wafa, the PA’s official news outlet, which indicates it was made off the cuff.

Israeli human rights groups representing Arab villages in the West Bank petitioned the high court Wednesday to block a contentious new law that would allow Israel to seize private Palestinian land and award it to Jewish settlers.

In the wake of multiple airstrikes launched by the Israeli army inside the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for Human Rights expressed concern that Israel could be leading up to a wide-scale military offensive.