“Because the Palestinians are barred from participating in Israel’s democratic debate, Breaking the Silence and other Israeli peace and human rights NGOs are entitled, even obligated, to bring the realities of occupation and the denial of rights to Palestinians to light,” writes FMEP’s Mitchell Plitnick

“With one year left in office, President Barack Obama should hurry up and join the French in promoting an international conference on a two-state solution,” writes Uri Savir.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog presented US Secretary of State John Kerry with a plan for an Israeli pullout from the West Bank, telling him that separation is the only way forward with the Palestinians.

A court sentenced two young Israelis to life and 21 years in prison respectively on Thursday for burning a Palestinian teen alive, part of a cycle of violence that led up to the 2014 Gaza war. The two Israelis were minors at the time of the chilling attack, in which they and a third man snatched Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, from an east Jerusalem street and subsequently killed him.

A security guard, 25, was lightly wounded on Thursday morning when he was stabbed by two 13-year-old Israeli Arab girls in the central city of Ramle. Police said the attack appeared to be nationalistically motivated.

“Two million human beings, some of whom worked here for years, some of them even have friends here, live in abject poverty and petrifying despair, mainly because of Israel’s blockade,” writes Gideon Levy.

In an interview with Al-Monitor, Zionist Camp Knesset member Yoel Hasson explained why he thinks the Zionist Camp can win votes in the large settlement blocs.