“Europe must recognize that ‘the US leads’ approach to resolving the conflict is doomed to never-ending failure: It affords time for the Israeli settlement enterprise to further entrench itself and makes the two-state solution increasingly impossible to achieve,” write Sam Bahour and Mousa Jiryis.

“Israeli government ministers, ‘Arab affairs’ analysts, and regular citizens incite against us — but they’re also inciting us. And yet, despite it all, we restrain ourselves,” writes Umar al-Ghubari.

Palestinians in refugee camps talk about their experiences in the first and second intifadas, why they’re not interested in a third, and what they expect for the future.

An Israeli judge rebukes the state over its failure to publish all protocols and procedures that govern the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday compared radical left activists and groups with the Jewish extremists who allegedly torched a Palestinian home in the West Bank, killing three members of a single family.

“Israel still portrays itself as a Jewish and democratic state. Yet in practice, as its Palestinian citizens can attest, it functions as a Jewish ethnocracy, leaving small margins of freedom for its Palestinian citizens that have been steadily shrinking in the past few years. Now the Israeli state has come under the complete control of the far right wing, which sees no need even for such limited margins of freedom,” write Nadim Nashif and Raya Naamneh.

“The American Jewish establishment, from the Federations to synagogues, must take a look in the mirror and decide whether this is the Israel it identifies with. If it isn’t, it should speak up,” writes Edo Konrad. “Urgently.”

“The arrest of Palestinian journalist Salim Sweidan and his detention for four days has exposed a broken legal system where understandings are replacing the rule of law,” writes Daoud Kuttab.

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