The Civil Administration recognizes the establishment of the outpost and apparently there is no immediate intention of evacuating it.

“If maximum pressure could bring peace, the Israelis would have bested the Palestinians decades ago. The reality, it turns out, is that as people become poorer materially, they cling to their dignity and often become less compromising,” writes David Ignatius.

For nearly six months now, Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been staging weekly demonstrations at points along the border between Gaza and Israel—protests they call the “Great March of Return,” which demands that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their lands in present-day Israel.

The goal of a two-state solution is under serious challenge today.

Gadi Eisenkot warns Security-Cabinet that White House decision to halt funds to PA could foment outbreak of further violence in the West Bank, requiring larger deployments of IDF troops.

More than 30 Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), sent a letter to Trump on Friday warning that going through with the cuts would “make a desperate situation even worse.”

A pro-Israel advocacy organization, The Israel Project (TIP), was identified last week as operating a series of Facebook groups as part of an under-the-radar effort to spread pro-Israel messaging without identifying the source of the content. Its media strategy, however, was much bigger than that.