“Labeling settlement products is a legitimate way for Israel’s largest trade partner to make clear its objection to the growing settlements which, in both the European and American view, are endangering the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” writes FMEP Vice President Mitchell Plitnick.

Two Palestinian cousins were shot in Jerusalem on Monday, after carrying out a stabbing attack against residents of the city.

An Israeli woman was killed in a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, near the West Bank settlements of Efrat and Alon Shvut, on Sunday afternoon.

Four Israelis were stabbed and wounded, one seriously, in the southern city of Kiryat Gat on Saturday in what police described as a terrorist attack.

“The police request to postpone the demolition of a synagogue built on Palestinian land for fear of right-wing attacks is a clear surrender to threat of violence,” writes Yossi Gurvitz.

Israel has indicted no one so far in the murder last summer of a Palestinian couple and their son. It fits a pattern of failure seen as helping fuel a wave of attacks.

“The defense establishment has already realized that Israel has no more gestures to offer the Palestinians. There are two options left: A real peace move or instructing the army to prepare to take over the West Bank completely,” writes Alex Fishman.

“The Israeli government has begun omitting the Arabic name for Jerusalem from its street signs, erasing not only the language from the Israeli consciousness, but Palestinian identity itself,” writes Umar Al-Ghubari.

The Israeli government approves a plan for five new settlements in the Negev/Naqab. Rights group says the plan, like Israel’s overall policy regarding its Bedouin citizens, is discriminatory.

Secretary of State John Kerry on his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not planning to restart peace talks or broker any agreement.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely insisted Sunday that, contrary to the longstanding international consensus, Jewish settlements were not an impediment to peace with the Palestinians at all.

Critics say Netanyahu is hitting the wrong note when it comes to the media, weakening press freedom and holding sway over TV broadcasters in a country that bills itself as the Middle East’s only true democracy.

Israel will revoke work permits from families of terrorists, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday during a visit to the Gush Etzion Junction which over the last few weeks has repeatedly been the site of terrorist attacks.

“The 2015-2016 state budget reflects well the priorities of the Netanyahu government, with generous funding and allocations to the settlers and religious parties, while neglecting the periphery, the Arabs and Israel’s secular heritage,” writes Mazal Mualem.

“Though the majority of Palestinians are weary of violence and concerned over a new and devastating confrontation, the general atmosphere is inching toward a full-blown intifada,” writes Shlomi Eldar.