An Israeli soldier armed with a machine gun was recently caught on camera scuffling with several Palestinian women and girls, who intervened as the man tried to detain an injured 12 year-old boy for throwing stones. The footage went viral, generating millions of views in just two days, and has since put a spotlight on two radically different — and seemingly irreconcilable — interpretations of the army’s role in policing the occupied territories.

“After a viral video emerged of a soldier attempting to arrest a Palestinian boy, the Israeli press presents the official army version rather than the accounts of the villagers who saw it all happen,” writes Leehee Rothschild.

Szubin is in Israel this weekend to lobby Israeli government officials and foreign-policy experts to endorse the Iran deal.

New research has revealed that 15 percent of the total Jewish settler population in the occupied West Bank are American nationals.

“The monthlong break was supposed to be the best window for critics to whip up opposition. It hasn’t happened,” write Burgess Everett and John Bresnahan.

“It’s stunning that opponents of the Iran deal—even purportedly mainstream groups like AIPAC—cannot bring together a cohort of former military officials against the Iran deal that doesn’t include at least a few anti-Muslim bigots, conspiracy theorists, MEK promoters, or, at the very least, hardline neoconservative hawks,” writes Grace Cason. “If anything, the background of these ‘validators’ against a deal should make people think twice about opposing it.”

This year marks the tenth anniversary of an Egyptian-Israeli economic partnership that has quietly pumped billions into Cairo’s vulnerable economy.

“If the international community opts for passivity on a two-state solution instead of intervention, the policy vacuum might attract many negative factors and ignite violence,” writes Uri Savir.

More and more religious Jews are visiting the holy site, part of a movement defying a centuries-old rabbinic ban and stoking tension with Muslims who also lay claim to the esplanade.

The largest grocery store chain in Luxembourg, Cactus, has decided to stop marketing fruit and vegetables imported from Israel until verifying that they are not from Israeli settlements built on Palestinian occupied territories.

Former FM slams Netanyahu’s handling of Allaan case, and tells his party to prepare for elections in 2016.

The Gaza Strip’s new school year began on Monday at schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after a one-week delay due to a boycott by students’ parents.

“Israel prefers to dismiss the rumours of a possible resignation of the Palestinian president – because it has too much to lose from such a move,” writes Meron Rapoport.