“A plethora of new technologies, such as phone and internet monitoring and interception, CCTV, and biometric data collection, have enabled Israel to surveil Palestinians on a massive, intrusive scale,” writes Nadim Nashif.

“The absurd arrest of a Palestinian worker who was mistranslated by the police is a reminder that Arabic has been turned into a tool to oppress the native population in this country,” writes Orly Noy.

Hogan said requests for future bids on state contracts will include language certifying that a company has not engaged in a boycott of Israel.

“The Dickinson case [in which hurricane relief recipients were required to certify that they do not boycott Israel] has brought to the fore misgivings about the measures passed in more than 20 states targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel. Critics say they may impinge on free speech rights and create a backlash by making it seem the government is using the law to suppress one side in a political debate,” writes Ron Kampeas.

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) announced on Monday that legislation to cut off U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority, if the P.A. declines to end payments to families of terrorists, will advance through his committee in the coming weeks.

“To assume that the ever-expanding settlement blocs as presently (and vaguely) defined ‘will remain part of Israel in any final status deal’ – implicitly supporting Ambassador Friedman’s claim that they already are part of Israel – is to undermine the entire ‘land for peace’ formula,” writes Aaron Mann.

“The authors [of The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas] fault Abbas for being overindulgent of his public opinion and domestic opposition, most Palestinians would claim precisely the opposite: Abbas has grown increasingly unpopular precisely because of his continued commitment to a failed peace process that has produced few benefits and a great many losses,” writes Khaled Elgindy.

“Netanyahu’s tweets that the latest Palestinian reconciliation effort “makes peace much harder to achieve” ignore the lessons of history,” writes Wendy Pearlman.

The Cairo deal could yet pave the way to fresh elections in Palestine, offering a glimpse of hope that the blockade of Gaza may be lifted, writes Rami Almeghari.

A top Hamas official defiantly rejected Israel’s conditions for recognizing Hamas-Palestinian Authority unity, noting that the very act he was committing — an official visit to Iran — went against the conditions.

The Greek Orthodox community in Palestine and Jordan is in open revolt against Patriarch Theophilus III over the sale of church lands to Israel and Israelis.

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of encroaching on the work of the Supreme Court in a bid to achieve a “counterrevolution” after the court became more activist decades ago.