“As a young Palestinian girl growing up in a patriarchal society, your speeches about women’s rights inspired me to imagine a world where gender equality could exist,” Layali Awwad writes to Hillary Clinton. “That’s why I was surprised to read your article in The Forward.“

“In Washington, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his pledge to make peace with Palestinians – but analysts raise doubts,” writes James Reinl.

“Instead of first defining the framework of a resolution,” Michael Omer-Man writes, “start treating the occupation and the violence it perpetuates as a civil rights issue and not a nationalist or diplomatic affair.”

In a tense internal meeting, staffers of the Center for American Progress criticized the think tank’s decision to host the Israeli leader.

Three dozen US senators sent on Tuesday a missive to the European Union expressing concern over plans to label products manufactured in West Bank settlements.

Israeli forces shot and killed one Palestinian and critically wounded another Palestinian, a 12-year-old boy, after two separate knife attacks in Jerusalem.

After a series of killings and attacks in recent days a top Palestinian official said clashes likely to rise further across Israel and Palestine.

“Hebron, the largest West Bank city, might be just a few steps away from conducting armed confrontations against the Israeli army,” writes Adnan Abu Amer.

Over the weekend, Israeli troops raided the offices of Youth Against Settlements (YAS), an activist group in Hebron that monitors human rights violations by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers.

“The full development of the Palestinian telecommunications sector depends on an end to Israel’s controls and more broadly ending its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and its denial of Palestinian rights,” write Nur Arafeh, Wassim F. Abdullah, and Sam Bahour.

After 101 days, Israeli law-enforcement officials still don’t have enough evidence to indict the Jewish extremists who firebombed a Palestinian home, killing three members of the same family, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced Monday.

Israel is reportedly planning to install surveillance cameras on roads throughout the West Bank in an effort to curb stone-throwing and firebombing attacks.

Ahead of the recent flare-up in violence that has prompted fears of a third Palestinian intifada, a majority of Palestinians continue to say they believe mostly in nonviolent forms of resistance and negotiation in achieving self-determination and security for their people. However, Palestinians are more supportive of violent means than they have been in the past several years, with 32% believing mostly in armed struggle and military solutions.

Israelis don’t trust their government, while many Jewish Israelis don’t trust Arab Israelis, according to a far-ranging annual survey by the Israel Democracy Institute.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s continued public support of the two-state solution on Tuesday, in an interview with Army Radio.

Gisha‘s Amir Rotem outlines three ‘gestures’ Israel can easily make that will radically improve the lives of at least thousands of Palestinians — all without compromising one inch on its own security concerns.