A one-and-a-half year old Palestinian baby was burned to death Friday morning in the West Bank village of Duma in an attack on his family’s home allegedly by Israeli settlers.

“True, the deal with Iran is not perfect, far from it, but it is not nearly as bad as the prime minister portrays,” writes Meretz party head Zehava Gal-On.

“AIPAC and other Jewish organizations have chosen to fight the Iranian nuclear agreement, even though the majority of American Jews support the agreement and despite the growing damage to Israel-US relations,” writes Uri Savir.

In the last weeks, AIPAC launched a large campaign to dissuade Congress from supporting the recent P5+1 deal with Iran. As a “pro-Israel” lobby, AIPAC is campaigning under the false pretense of promoting Israeli interests. In fact, many Israeli security experts, past and present members of the diplomatic core, political leaders and public figures in Israel (including both supporters and critics of the deal) oppose Netanyahu’s intervention in this domestic U.S. debate. The attempts to influence Congress will harm Israel’s long-term interests if they fail and jeopardize its security should they succeed.

A new batch of emails released Friday to and from Hillary Clinton show that the then-secretary of state was advised in 2009 to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into restarting peace talks with the Palestinians by making “his politics uneasy.”

“Got questions about the Iran nuclear deal? Too bad, if you were an AIPAC activist at a briefing this week with top Obama administration officials,” writes Ron Kampeas.

“There is every reason to believe that Israeli leaders are earnest in condemning the terrorist attack on the West Bank town of Duma, where Jewish settlers appear to have set a Palestinian home on fire while the family was still inside,” writes Max Fisher. “But they have also worked for years to maintain and deepen Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, knowing full well that extremist violence against innocent Palestinians has been and would continue to be not just a consequence of that occupation, but a fixture of it.”

For the extreme right, violence against Palestinian civilians is not solely a result of racism — it is, first and foremost, a form of control.

“The number of solved cases is still negligible, the sentences handed out to Jewish terrorists are relatively light, and the government is no rush to act. One year after the attempt to declare ‘price tag’ perpetrators as terrorists – nothing has been done,” wrties Tova Tzimuki.

A budget deficit of $101 million threatens to delay the start of the academic year in UNRWA schools. At a time of rising extremism, such an outcome could have consequences for states across the Middle East, the agency says.