“The senior politicians of the State of Israel really need to calm down and stop behaving as if the world is about to end,” writes Meir Javedanfar. “It is not.”

“The announcement last week of an agreement between Iran and the P5+1 was historic,” writes Ilan Goldenberg. “The distance between parameters and a final agreement remains significant. Over the next three months the administration will have to deal with three major challenges as it attempts to finalize an agreement: (1) a skeptical U.S. Congress; (2) nervous Middle Eastern allies; and (3) the negotiations themselves.”

“Lindsey Graham opposed the interim deal when it looked like the interim deal could be sunk; now that the interim deal is a fact of life, he opposes the next step in Iran negotiations,” writes Max Fisher. “Republicans like him (as well as some Iran hawks in the Democratic party) in fact oppose any deal of any kind with Iran.”

“Liberal doves often decry AIPAC’s outsized influence on U.S. foreign policy, but the bigger question is: Why can’t they compete?” writes Peter Beinart.

“Four Israeli soldiers carry out a routine procedure of ‘showing presence’ by throwing a smoke grenade into a Palestinian home. Its real purpose? Terrorizing innocent people,” writes Yossi Gurvitz.

A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Friday at the funeral for his cousin in the town of Beit Ummar near Hebron.

“The Palestinian boycott of Israeli products sold in the West Bank might help strengthen the Palestinian economy, and draw the world’s attention to the Israeli occupation,” writes Daoud Kuttab.

Some senior Palestinian Authority officials are calling to cut off security cooperation with Israel in response to punitive measures such as deducting debts from the recently unfrozen tax revenues.

UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA has only received funding to reconstruct 200 of the 9,061 houses destroyed in Gaza, a report released Thursday said.