“The argument over who gets to come to America is personal for me—and millions of others,” writes FMEP President Matthew Duss

At least two Israelis have been killed in a stabbing at a room used as a synagogue in Tel Aviv, and the Palestinian assailant has been wounded and arrested, the Israeli police said.

Three people were killed late Thursday afternoon when a Palestinian terrorist shot at cars stuck in a traffic jam near the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank.

“It requires our leader to stand up and toss out the window the old mantras that we don’t have a partner and to then build the partnership,” writes Gershon Baskin.

“I had to rub my eyes and reread the headline in Haaretz this morning: ‘Cop Who Beat Up Palestinian Teen Gets Six Weeks Community Service,'” Mairav Zonszein writes.

“Banning and persecuting political groups like the Islamic Movement and Balad has the effect of disengaging Palestinian citizens of Israel from the state and its political system. That is very, very dangerous,” writes Noam Sheizaf.

The neighborhoods of East Jerusalem left outside the Separation Barrier provide an extreme illustration of broader processes in East Jerusalem and Israel’s general attitude toward the Palestinian population of the city.

“The difference between the Zionism of the 20^th century and Netanyahu’s 21^st century Zionism is that the former understood that hardship is not the same thing as impossibility, whereas the latter conflates the two at the drop of a hat,” writes Michael Koplow.

“The decision to outlaw the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel might actually strengthen its status among Palestinians there,” writes Shlomi Eldar.