The State Department hopes Israel’s outpost legalization bill, which has received preliminary approval, ‘does not become law.’

What can American progressives learn from the struggles of the Israeli left? Dahlia Scheindlin and Matt Duss ask.

Annexing the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim is the next step after the settlement billbecomes law, right wing politicians told the Knesset on Wednesday.

40 families to be temporarily quartered in neighboring Ofra settlement until another community can be founded.

Dozens of Palestinians have been detained — including a number of children — and clashes have erupted daily in the occupied West Bank village of Deir Nidham since it was blockaded by the Israeli army three weeks ago, “turning the lives of 1,600 into a prison,” locals told Ma’an on Wednesday.

A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli border police forces on Thursday morning in the northern occupied West Bank after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack.

“The potential of Palestinian democracy has been greatly weakened by Israel and its military occupation, Palestinian actors such as Fatah and Hamas, and key members of the donor community,” a new al-Shabaka roundtable maintains.

The recent conference of the ruling Fatah party sent a disheartening message to young Palestinians: Most of those elected to top positions were in their 60s and 70s, signaling that politics under octogenarian President Mahmoud Abbas is an old man’s game and that it is unlikely that fresh ideas on winning statehood will emerge from this group of veteran loyalists.

“I don’t know what sanctions the Israeli government can impose on me for boycotting products made in the settlements, but I’ll accept them proudly,” writes Eitan Kalinski.

“The punishment of Benny Begin for voting against the settlement regularization bill shows how extremist the Likud has become,” writes Mazal Mualem.