“With at least 34 votes in the Senate, the Iran deal is a fait accompli. Netanyahu will continue to enjoy a reprieve from pressure about the peace process as a result of the diplomatic energy being spent on implementing the Iran deal and Obama’s efforts to push it through Congress. Israel will also, however, face increased pressure regarding its own nuclear arsenal as part of a renewed Iranian push for regional disarmament,” writes Shemuel Meir.

US secretary of state says resuming peace process based on a two-state solution ‘imperative’.

“In his headlong crash into the wall vis-à-vis the Iran deal, Netanyahu took with him many innocent victims; one might have hoped that this would cause him to reevaluate his policies, but this is not likely to happen,” writes Barak Ravid.

“A summary of a draft bill, which I obtained from a source who asked to remain anonymous, is circulating that is designed (almost certainly by AIPAC) to appeal to those Democrats eager to ‘kiss and make up’ after their defiance of the most powerful Israel lobby group,” writes Jim Lobe. “It contains a number of ‘poison pills,’ which, if approved, appear calculated to raise new obstacles to implementation.”

US critics of the nuclear agreement with Iran are turning to the 50 states as it becomes increasingly obvious that Congress won’t be able to kill the deal.

Sources close to the prime minister said he did not regret the manner in which he waged the battle against the deal, including his controversial speech to Congress in March.

Member of pro-Israel lobby tells Israeli media that Netanyahu’s March address transformed Iran deal into partisan issue.

When Mohammad’s mother, sister and aunt saw an Israeli soldier choking the 12-year-old boy, they grabbed him on all sides. Then the child’s father alerted an officer to come rescue the soldier.

“The law substantially strengthens and widens the powers of the police and the Shabak to suppress any legitimate protest activities against Israeli policies,” Palestinian human rights group Adalah said in a statement.

“It is not right-wing governments that institutionalized racial domination here; the process started decades before they took power,” writes Roy Isacowitz.

State writes off the majority of debts owed by dozens of Jewish settlements, but released figures this week only after Haaretz filed suit to obtain the information.

“At the moment it happened, the July 31 murder of eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabshe by Israeli settlers in a firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma seemed to shake the foundations of the Israeli occupation itself,” writes Dan Cohen. “More than a month later Israeli authorities have failed to produce a suspect directly linked to the attack.”

The New Yorker runs a profile of Palestinian journalist and writer Sayed Kashua.

Palestinian political factions in the Gaza Strip on Thursday called for a boycott of the upcoming Palestine National Council (PNC) meeting, the first in nearly 20 years, saying the session will damage national unity.

Mahmoud Abbas, the aging Palestinian president, may be paving the way for his exit from political life — or he may be trying to consolidate power by crippling all his rivals.

French judges probing claims that the Palestinian leader was murdered close the case without bringing charges.