In a meeting at the White House on Monday, Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel put on display perhaps the closest relationship between leaders of their two countries in the seven decades since Israel declared independence. As for the Palestinians, they are no longer on speaking terms with the president, who is busy cutting their aid.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced snowballing corruption allegations at home, President Trump said, during the Israeli official’s visit to Washington, that the relationship between the two nations is better than ever. Trump said he is considering attending the mid-May opening of the controversial U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.

Remarks by US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of discussions at the White House on March 5, 2018.

“My generation has only known Israel as an occupier. We won’t back anyone who supports that injustice – including the powerful lobby that is AIPAC,” writes Emily Mayer.

The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities.

The event, organized by Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs and the Yesha Council, an umbrella organization of the settler movement, focused on fighting against calls to boycott products made in settlements.

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday said Israeli settlement building was not an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, instead blaming the failure to reach a peace accord on the Palestinian refusal to accept the Jewish state.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, decried the phrase “pro-Israel, pro-peace” — a motto closely associated with J Street — as “blasphemous.”

AIPAC has for many years prevented media from attending ‘breakout sessions,’ leading two major American-Jewish publications to boycott this year’s conference in protest at lack of openness.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against Arizona State University, accusing the school of violating Muslim students’ right to free speech and rights to equal protection by enforcing a ban on speakers who call for boycotting Israel.

Some of the findings of 7amleh’s 2017 index:

• Every 71 seconds there is an inciting post uploaded against Palestinians
• A total of 445,000 calls for violence, hate speech posts and curses against Palestinians
• One out of nine posts about Palestinians contains a call for violence or a curse
• 50,000 Israeli social media users wrote at least one inciting post against Palestinians

Palestinians discuss their options as Israel codifies its annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel exercises direct control over the 20% of Hebron City, known as H2, which is home to approximately 40,000 Palestinians and a few hundred Israeli settlers living in five settlement compounds.

Fifty-two Knesset members voted in favor of the private bill by Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern and Likud MK Avi Dichter, which would deduct welfare payments paid out by the Palestinian Authority to Palestinian prisoners and their relatives from tax revenues Israel transfers annually to the PA.

The police will be able to hold onto the bodies of terrorists and not hand them over to the families for burial, according to an amendment approved Tuesday morning by the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee.

Dozens of Palestinian journalists have staged a demonstration outside the UN office in Gaza City to protest Facebook’s practice of blocking Palestinian Facebook accounts.