“An 18-month prison sentence for Elor Azaria, who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian attacker last year, is a reminder that the occupation has no place for law and justice,” writes Noam Sheizaf.

The sentencing of an Israeli soldier to 18 months for killing a wounded Palestinian assailant is a “green light” for the military’s “crimes”, a Palestinian government spokesman said Tuesday.

Home demolitions in East Jerusalem have risen dramatically since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. A source at city hall confirmed that since the changing of U.S. administrations, government restrictions have been lifted and the Jerusalem municipality has been allowed to demolish many more structures than during the term of former President Barack Obama.

An Israel Antiquities Authority project involves an effort to increase the Jewish presence in a Palestinian neighborhood lying just below the Al-Aqsa mosque and to assert religious influence over archaeological finds.

Israeli settlers are doing all they can to prevent the Jabaris from cultivating their six acres. The Israeli army helped out.

“The same ‘Greater Israel’ agenda that has eroded Israeli society is today poisoning America’s democracy,” writes Lara Friedman.

“Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians has not only increased Arab antipathy toward Israel, it has also significantly eroded the Arab people’s support for the Arab Peace Initiative,” writes James Zogby. “Given this, it is more likely that Arab cooperation with Israel, that is perceived to undercut Palestinian rights, would more likely play into the hands of Iran and extremist movements who would use it to inflame passions against such an arrangement.”

“Whether the outcome is one state or two is irrelevant as long as it is based on ending Israel’s military subjugation of the Palestinian people as the first step to fulfilling Palestinian rights. Any deviation from this prerequisite is a deviation from genuine and lasting peace,” write Alaa Tartir and Tareq Baconi.

“US recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan would immediately inflame passions throughout the region,” writes Mitchell Plitnick.

Israeli right-wing politicians and settlers lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for his plan to coordinate settlement activity with the new Trump administration.

The election of military leader Yahya Sanwar as the head of Hamas’ political bureau in Gaza has raised questions on the movement’s policy at home and abroad and the military wing’s grip over the movement.

Addressing American-Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, Jewish Home party leader Bennett laid out his vision for the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which includes annexing some 60 percent of the West Bank, and offering Israeli citizenship to the Palestinians living there and autonomy to the remaining residents of the territories.

New regulations would force business owners to display a sign on their premises if they won’t provide shipping or other services to settlements across the 1967 border.