“Why do the AJC and ADL criticize Israel’s comparatively minor transgressions against democracy inside the green line while ignoring its far more profound transgressions beyond it?” Peter Beinart asks.

“Israelis and American officials are going through the motions: Israel transgresses, the U.S. expresses concern. And on and on and on we go,” writes Asher Schechter.

Amid intense public debate over the legitimacy of left-wing NGOs operating in Israel, several coalition Knesset members have presented a bill that seeks to outlaw the group Breaking the Silence, which collects critical testimonies from soldiers about their service in the territories.

As court mulls sentence, parents of slain Palestinian teen say if killers houses had been torn down ‘Dawabsheh family wouldn’t have been burned.’

A Palestinian was shot and killed on Thursday after a stabbing attack at an Israeli military checkpoint north of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, Israel’s army and media said.

“The new Palestinian generation leading the intifada did not wait for instructions from political leaders, who may now have to look to the youth for direction,” writes Adnan Abu Amer.

Palestinians say Israel has drastically reduced natural gas into Gaza, worsening bitter cold weather conditions.

The health care system in the Gaza Strip is severely lacking and cannot fully provide for the needs of the local population.

A Hamas military court in Gaza City sentenced four Gazans to death on Wednesday for spying for allegedly Israel, according to a court statement. One of the four, a man in his early 20s from the Zeitoun area south of Gaza City, was present at the court-martial, a court source said. The other three, who fled Gaza a few years ago and are reportedly in Israel, were convicted in absentia.