“The BDS movement and the Israeli government have one goal in common: blurring the Green Line,” writes Dmitry Shumsky

While polling has indicated for months that the American public will support the emerging nuclear agreement, now, an extensive new survey confirms that this support is even stronger among American Jews.

An Israeli delegation headed by National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen will arrive in Washington on Monday for a final round of talks with senior U.S. officials over the Iran nuclear negotiations.

Settlement construction in the West Bank rose sharply in the first quarter of 2015, with a 219 percent spike in completed housing and a 93% rise in starts, according to data released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

The number of Palestinian children killed in 2014 was the third-highest of all situations the UN monitored — after Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel and Hamas are left off a list of rights-violating states and groups, allegedly as a result of political pressure.

A delegation from the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court at The Hague is due to arrive in Israel on June 27 as part of the prosecution’s preliminary examination into whether war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to senior Palestinian sources.

“Israel’s international standing is under grave threat not because of the actions of a small minority of BDS activists,” writes outgoing British ambassador Matthew Gould, “but because it is losing the sympathy and support of the moderate majority due to the lack of progress towards peace.”

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is promoting a bill seeking to tax or eliminate foreign funds to NGOs focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which she says are ‘eroding the legitimacy of Israel to exist as a Jewish and democratic state’.

More than half of Jewish-Israelis support having separate Jewish and Palestinian buses in the West Bank, a new poll found.

“There were once so-called good Arabs, and they are no more. Israel finished off the genre. Norman Issa, a man of the theater who dared boycott settlers, is finding out,” writes Gideon Levy.

President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called for reviewing political, economic, and security agreements with Israel.

“Amman and Ramallah are not seeing eye to eye at the level of politics and coordination, threatening national unity in both Jordan and Palestine,” writes Osama Al Sharif.

The Palestinian leadership has returned to the venue of the United Nations and the international community to rebound from the failed Oslo peace process. Is this high-profile international effort a negotiating tactic to better their hand at the negotiating table or a totally new strategy to gain freedom and independence? Palestinian businessman Sam Bahour weighs in.