Pic of the day: an ambulance arrives at the scene of a stabbing in the West Bank. The Palestinian assailant fled after attacking an Israeli.
West Bank stabbing leaves man seriously wounded minutes after another attack foiled https://t.co/IKqMICpVGt pic.twitter.com/sKgM1Ftj6r
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) November 6, 2015
Occupation/Human rights
A Jerusalem village under siege, Al Jazeera
Access in and out of al-Issawiya has been severely restricted amid a wave of violence in Jerusalem.
Israeli seriously wounded in West Bank stabbing attack, Ynet News
Security forces begin searching for assailaint who fled the scene just minutes after soldiers shoot, kill 72-year-old female Palestinian who attempted a vehicular attack.
Jerusalem: Why Should Things Not Get Worse?, New York Review of Books
Disingenuous surprise at Palestinian resistance has its intimate twin — the Netanyahu vision of eternal war.
Palestinians in Hebron face provocation and attacks, Al Jazeera
Families forced to live next to Jewish settlers in the West Bank city say life has become harder during current unrest.
Does What Palestinians Want Matter?, Michael Koplow
“A Rabin approach to the Palestinians – one that looks at the longterm and existential threats to Israel and shapes the strategic environment in the face of those threats – dictates a two state solution and separation from the Palestinians,” writes Michael Koplow.
US-Israel relations
Obama believes Israel-Palestine peace deal not possible before he leaves office, Middle East Eye
Barack Obama has made a “realistic assessment” that finding a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians will not be possible before his term in office ends at the beginning of 2017, US officials have said.
Ted Cruz says PLO a ‘terrorist organization’, The Times of Israel
The Palestine Liberation Organization on Thursday criticized Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz over a Senate hearing he oversaw on Palestinian and Iranian terrorism that it called “biased and inflammatory.”
Ben Carson: Israel will have a very strong friend if I am president, The Jerusalem Post
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson assured Israel in a video message that if he won the presidential race in the US next year, Israel would have a strong friend in the White House.
Liberals Push Back Against Benjamin Netanyahu's Fence-Mending Effort, The Forward
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech at a liberal Washington think tank is provoking outrage from some progressives who say that the appearance gives a bipartisan sheen to his government’s right-wing policies.
Israeli politics
Poll: Most Jewish Israelis say terrorists ‘should be killed on the spot’, The Times of Israel
More than half of Jewish-Israelis say they believe any Palestinian “who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot,” according to a new survey.
'Centrist' politician's plan for total separation from Palestinians, +972 Magazine
Yair Lapid isn’t sure which Palestinians he wants to separate from or even how many of them there are, but he knows he needs a bigger wall to do it.
Wave of violence fuels Arab-Jewish suspicions in Israel's heartland, The Guardian
Knife attacks fuel fear across a bitterly divided country, with no expectation of a political settlement any time soon
Benjamin Netanyahu Ignores Roots of Palestinian Violence — and Betrays His Party's Founders, The Forward
“The new Likud version of reality has been evolving slowly over the decades since Oslo,” writes J. J. Goldberg.
Palestinian politics
Palestinian government shuts Arab newspaper over report on Israel ties, Reuters
The Palestinian administration in the occupied West Bank shut down the local office of a pan-Arab newspaper this week after accusing it of “offensive” reporting on Palestinian security coordination with Israel, officials said.